Crazy engineering. They've rebuilt the internet (network layer and a browser) for their app...
The Lite client is a simple VM that provides various capabilities to > interact with the OS (such as read a file, open the camera, create an > SQLite database, and so on) and a rendering engine to drive the Android UI. > Product code is written on the server and is expressed in terms of the > capabilities the client has. Resources are sent down from the server as > needed and cached. So it has infinite scalability for building additional > product without bloating the APK. On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Gilles Dubuc <gil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > https://code.facebook.com/posts/1365439333482197/how-we-built-facebook-lite-for-every-android-phone-and-network > > "To achieve an extremely byte-efficient wire protocol, instead of using > HTTPS, Lite uses a custom message protocol over TLS (directly over TCP). > One of the biggest pain points in a 2G network is that establishing a > connection can be very slow; it can take multiple seconds. As most Lite > traffic flows over a single connection to the backend, this pain point is > mitigated in comparison." > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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