How Instagram improves Scroll Performance on Android
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Instagram's Android team faced a brutal problem: complex captions with emojis and links were causing 50ms UI thread blocks, making scrolling feel janky even on flagship devices.
Instagram built a full-screen video viewer that needed to feel buttery smooth on every Android device. Here's how they made animations delightful without killing performance.