Five Tips for Improving Your Adalo App Performance

In this video Adalo customer advocate Kyle Belford and CTO Jason Gilmore review five best practices that makers can begin applying today to make their apps more performant. Kyle introduces these best practices by walking through two apps he's personally created and uses every day!
Here is a short summary of the topics we discussed:
Tip #1. Model your app design patterns after high traffic apps you admire. There are very good reasons why high traffic apps break logic across multiple screens rather than try to bundle a bunch of complicated logic into a single screen.
Tip #2. Take advantage of third-party components such as the list element paginator. We are currently working on native pagination with plans on releasing it in early February!
Tip #3. Be sure to optimize your images. The blog post (www.adalo.com/...) contains links to a few online free image compressors, and you can also take advantage of recent improvements to Adalo's own image optimization processes
Avoid lists within lists.
Tip #4. Always consider how you can refactor the user interface to streamline logic
Tip #5. Maintain counts inside record properties instead of constantly calculating them on the fly. You don't want to constantly derive counts, aggregates, and so forth.

[@mattwier4824]

Thanks for sharing this insight!

[@Adalo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mattwier4824]

The image reduction looks promising, but I am confused. My images that I load to not provide a URL to modify, just the ability to see and replace. In the interim, I have replaced all of my images (several being over 1MB) with 50KB versions.

[@Adalo]

Oh wow great to hear about your success with image size reduction! Also, sorry for the confusion about the URL, you actually won't see one because the improved image compression happens in the background. All you need to do is replace your existing image with a new one (even if it is the same image), and it will be auto-compressed using the improved algorithm.