Optimizing the UI flow

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Describes implementing a UI watchdog to detect main-thread stalls: two implementation patterns (timer-based and RunLoop-based), how to collect watchdog results and concrete findings from the ICQ project, and how to analyze the collected stacks and profile accounting for synchronization costs. Covers common system APIs and popular libraries that interfere with watchdogs, workarounds, and the final watchdog configuration used in ICQ.

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1. 0:00UI optimization introduction
2. 10:00Tools for latency detection
3. 13:37Background and system module issues
4. 18:39UX solutions
5. 21:11Watchdog usage
6. 25:07Summary and future plans

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