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Lazy Loading is Faster Loading - Find out How.

If an application takes a long time to load, it can leave a bad impression on users. Image heavy applications can take a long time to load when the app is first opened. This is because the client's browser or device makes a separate callback to the server to load each image - even if the image is not visible! Instead of loading every image when the app is first loaded, an approach called "lazy loading" can be used to delay downloading images from the server until they are visible.

Lazy loading can drastically improve the initial load of an application that contains a lot of images, improving every user's first experience with your application. Alpha Anywhere's new Lazy Image Loading genie adds lazy loading for images in Lists, dramatically improving load times for apps that display a large number of images in List controls. How does it work? We'll show you:



Learn more about how Lazy Image Loading can improve your application's performance.
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Sarah Mitchell
Sarah Mitchell

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The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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