Server-Driven UI GraphQL

What is Server Driven UI? Server driven UI, also known as SDUI, is a technique used by companies like Spotify, Lyft and Airbnb to leverage an expressive document hosted on the server side but used on the client side to build complete screens and flows inside of Android apps, iOS apps, and web products.

How Can a Server Control UI? Theoretically, it’s simple: We make a request to a server and then we receive a JSON response in which there will be logic for what to inflate on the screen. Based on the logic, we have to render natively developed UI components on the view.

Server Driven Component Probably one of the simplest forms is, the server decides which component to show instead of the client decide . The component will form a stack (or list) of data one can view. The component format is fixed. So if one wants to customize the component, one has to have a new app release.

What is it? Briefly, Backend-Driven Development (or Backend-Driven UI, or also Server-Driven UI) is the idea of developing front-end applications with screens and flows based on servers responses . This means screens and navigation have different behaviour depending on server’s responses.2 Mar 2020