Yeah, this was a great read! Crazy engineering indeed! We're not going to be implementing a custom networking protocol for our Android app anytime soon, but for me here are some of the key takeaways applicable to our app from what Facebook is doing:
-prioritizing keeping the APK slim -optimizing image size/quality -optimizing based on the specific "device year class <https://code.facebook.com/posts/307478339448736/year-class-a-classification-system-for-android/>" and network connection quality -m. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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