Sometimes great results in code performance come with a small amount of work. We’d like to tell you a story about how we changed the Allegro mobile homepage and reduced usage of Allegro service infrastructure with only a few lines of code.
In this article, we want to share our approach to using server-driven UI in native mobile apps. In 2019 we created the first version of the in-house server-driven rendering tool called MBox and used it to render the homepage in the Allegro app on Android and iOS. We have come a long way since then, and now we use this tool to render more and more screens in the Allegro apps. After almost three years of working on MBox, we want to share how it works and the key advantages and challenges of using this approach.
