I noticed a long time ago (when facebook updated its application after new profiles were released) that news feeds and other other parts of the application are not generated using typical table views and cells. I consider this for several reasons.
At first, they were able to update some design elements on the fly without having to update it from the app store. Another example - from time to time, when the application loads and takes longer than expected, I managed to scroll (up, down, left and right) and see strange shadows that look like coming from uiwebview (maybe you can get a screenshot right now) . And finally, from time to time, “css” will not load immediately, and I will get this:
Does anyone have any idea what they are doing for this? I am very familiar with their Open20 base, but I don’t think there is anything special there that allows them to do this. It looks like they are generating HTML in a UIWebView, but I'm not quite sure.
What do you all think? The application that I create will be very useful when using the technology that they use. Updating and designing a table view and cells can be time consuming.
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