#005 | 10 DEC 2025
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The Zero Release Model
For ten years, the mobile industry obsessed over building faster. New frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms and now AI slashed creation time from weeks to hours. Today, screens, flows, logic, and tests appear from a prompt.
And yet… apps aren’t evolving any faster.
Teams build with 2025 speed but still ship with 2012 constraints. The bottleneck was never creation.
The bottleneck was delivery and beneath that, adoption.
The moment a change depends on App Store releases or user updates, your entire product velocity collapses back to 2010.
AI exposed this mismatch brutally: building is instant; learning is still slow.
The Breakthrough: Stop Depending on Releases. Stop Depending on Adoption.
This is the heart of the Zero-Release Model.
It challenges the oldest assumption in mobile: that the product experience must live inside the binary.
Under Zero-Release, the binary stops being the product and becomes the engine.
The real product that includes UI, navigation, logic, content, experiments it lives on the server.
The experience updates itself. Instantly.
New onboarding? Streamed.
New layout? Rendered instantly.
New experiment? Live immediately.
Learning? Continuous.
Releases fade into the background. User adoption becomes automatic.
The Mental Reset
Zero-Release collapses the version-driven mindset.
Old Thinking | New Thinking |
|---|---|
We ship versions. | We ship experiences. |
Users update to adopt. | Adoption is instant. |
Learning begins after rollout. | Learning begins immediately. |
Releases are milestones. | Releases disappear. |
This is the first time in mobile history where building fast and learning fast are both possible.
How It Works (Without the Magic Gloss)
Zero-Release is powered by Server-Driven UI:
Native app = renderer + OS capabilities
Server = source of truth for UI, logic, flows, personalization, experiments
Every app launch pulls a schema → renders native components → reflects changes instantly.
Native engineering stops repainting the same screens. It becomes the platform team that powers performance, integrations, and capabilities.
Product engineering becomes the experience team that evolves the app in real time.
Why Top Companies Already Switched
LinkedIn, Netflix, Airbnb, Flipkart, Zomato, Urban Company, all adopted SDUI years ago because their growth loops couldn’t survive release cycles.
They needed:
Faster onboarding iteration
Real-time personalization
Dynamic flows
Constant experimentation
Zero-Release wasn’t a trend; it was a necessity.
👉 Read the full article: The Zero-Release Model: Why Mobile Finally Has to Break Its Own Rules
What’s new in Digia?
Smart Scroll View
This week, we’re releasing a major upgrade to how complex pages behave in Digia. Smart Scroll View turns messy, multi-section layouts into one smooth, unified scrolling experience. No more nested scroll hacks, no jittery lists, no fighting the framework.
Headers, banners, tabs, grids, long lists, mixed sections—everything now scrolls together as a single, intelligent flow. And when paired with Smart Scroll Group and Pinned Header, you get native-quality patterns like collapsing headers, sticky filters, and coordinated transitions with almost zero effort.
In short: scrolling finally feels right.
Read the full documentation→ Smart Scroll View
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Microsoft Announces AI Dev Days (Dec 10–11)
Microsoft is hosting AI Dev Days, a free virtual event designed to bring the next generation of agentic AI development to engineers and teams.
The part developers should care about:
• Two days of deep-dive sessions
Day 1 covers AI app development: agents, multi-agent orchestration, and Microsoft Foundry.
Day 2 focuses on developer productivity: Copilot inside VS Code/VS2026, cloud workflows, and AI-powered modernization.
• It’s hands-on, not just marketing
Expect labs, real GitHub repos, guided builds, and expert Q&A.
• It’s aimed at real developers
Whether you ship frontend, backend, devops, or mobile - this event is built around usable patterns, not hype.
• Everything is free + available on replay
You can watch live or catch the recordings later.
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