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Diagnosing scroll performance

You get a report that scrolling stutters on a feed screen that mixes images and text. Where do you start, and how do you check?

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Don't guess. Measure on a real device with a Release build: Animation Hitches in Instruments to see which frame was late, and Time Profiler to see what the main thread was doing at that moment.

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