Android × Scroll Performance
Android Scroll Performance
We track 10 Android Scroll Performance case studies from 9 engineering teams. Instagram, Dropbox and Swiggy write about it most. Many posts also cover UI Performance and Performance Profiling. The posts run from 2014 to 2025. The newest is from August 2025.
Android Scroll Performance articles 1–10 of 10
Android Developers Blog: What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release
The Jetpack Compose team just dropped their August '25 release, and it's packed with updates Android devs have been waiting for.
Optimising Scrolling Performance with Litho
Swiggy's Android team was hitting scroll performance walls with traditional RecyclerViews. Their solution? Facebook's Litho framework, which delivered massive performance gains.
Improving Comment Rendering on Android
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.
Beautiful Performant Android UI
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.
Implementing Infinite Scrolling Efficiently
Phong Lam from Walmart Global Tech tackles a problem every mobile dev faces: infinite scroll that doesn't tank performance. His solution? Stop rendering everything and start being strategic.
Android Search Performance Improvements (Part 1)
Yelp users were literally grunting while waiting for search results to load. That's when the Android team knew they had a performance problem.
Detecting List Items Observed by User
Zalando's engineering team faced a tricky challenge: how do you know if a user actually *saw* an item in a scrolling list, not just flew past it?
Better List Views
React Native just killed ListView. The new list components solve memory leaks, stale rows, and ignored bugs that plagued mobile developers for years.
Improving Chat Rendering Performance
Twitch was dropping frames like crazy. Chat messages were taking 200ms to render when they had just 16.667ms to work with for smooth 60fps video.
Building Carousel Part II: Speeding Up the Data Model
Dropbox engineers faced a brutal reality: reading 5,000 photos from SQLite took a full second on a Nexus 5. For users with 100,000+ photos, the standard approach would be unusable.