These batches can drop frames really hard since each row is a feed story (which may have embeds etc).
Let's just be conservative on Android and try to unblock as much as possible. I'm not seeing a lot of blank spaces in practice unless I scroll super hard. Whereas the frame-by-frame improvement is quite noticeable, especially on embed-heavy feeds like the News feed. And I assume on higher end it'll work even better.
Test Plan
Scroll up and down different feeds.
Also try "scroll to top" and scrolling down after to try to trigger blanks.
Before
This was captured with the News feed (which has embeds and is consistently ordered). Five scrolls down with momentum.
These batches can drop frames really hard since each row is a feed story (which may have embeds etc).
Let's just be conservative on Android and try to unblock as much as possible. I'm not seeing a lot of blank spaces in practice unless I scroll super hard. Whereas the frame-by-frame improvement is quite noticeable, especially on embed-heavy feeds like the News feed. And I assume on higher end it'll work even better.
Test Plan
Scroll up and down different feeds.
Also try "scroll to top" and scrolling down after to try to trigger blanks.
Before
This was captured with the News feed (which has embeds and is consistently ordered). Five scrolls down with momentum.
After
Same, five scrolls on News feed.
And it just feels better, you know.