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Dave Arel ! bellycard.com HTML5 Mobile: doesn’t have to suck. @davearel

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel

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CHICAGO

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel

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“The biggest mistake we made as a company was HTML5” ~Zuck

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The Problem • Deploying took time and money • Innovation Slowed • Bugs could kill all activity

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“Mercante” (HTML5) • Deploy New Versions in minutes • Develop multiple versions for A/B and multivariate testing • User Events

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“Barco” (Native) • Device API • Request Queue • Key/Value Store • Heartbeats

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The Struggle is Real, Ya’ll • Tooling • Rendering (CPU/GPU) • Memory Management • DOM (Repaints/Reflows)

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel CPU & GPU You meh’ G-Unit

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel Painting: The visual representation in memory. Drawing: Casting the visual representation onto the screen.

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel GraphicsContext “Backing Store”

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel Reasons for compositing • Layer has 3D or perspective transform CSS properties • and elements • CSS animations • Layer uses accelerated CSS filters • Layer with a composited descendant has information that needs to be in the composited layer tree, such as a clip or reflection • Layer has a sibling with a lower z-index which has a compositing layer (in other words the layer is rendered on top of a composited layer) http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/gpu-accelerated-compositing-in-chrome

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel “Cacheing”

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel Tips • Keep composite layers small • Composite elements that are updated often (not just animated) • Compositing layers off screen allows you to buffer / pre-render • Avoid several texture uploads • Use Chrome/Safari (or others) to monitor compositing

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HTML5 Mobile Apps Don’t Have To Suck @davearel will-change The future of compositing http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-css-will-change-1-20140429/

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Think like mobile engineers

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THE END @davearel