Render Protocol is an open-source, server-driven UI framework for modern mobile platforms, starting with SwiftUI and Flutter, and expanding to Jetpack Compose.
The goal is to enable dynamic, schema-driven UIs powered by backend configuration and AI systems — without sacrificing native performance or platform idioms.
🚧 This project is in its early foundation phase.
Repositories are currently initialized as blank packages while architecture and core schemas are being finalized.
Build a platform-agnostic UI rendering protocol that allows:
- Rendering native UI from JSON / schema definitions
- Backend-controlled UI updates without app redeploys
- AI systems (LLMs) to generate valid, renderable UI schemas
- Strong separation of design, logic, and presentation
- First-class support for mobile-only experiences
Render Protocol is not a web abstraction layer — it embraces native frameworks and performance.
- Server-Driven, Native-Rendered
- Schema First
- Mobile-Only Focus
- AI-Compatible UI Generation
- Open-Source & Self-Hostable
- Extensible & Incremental
- Define platform-generic UI schema
- Client-side renderers for SwiftUI & Flutter
- Networking, caching, and schema validation
- Authentication hooks
- LLM-friendly schema definitions
- UI generation during user interaction
- Schema introspection & validation tools
- Drag-and-drop UI builder (backend-driven)
- Jetpack Compose parity
- Protobuf / binary schema support
- Performance instrumentation
- Advanced state & event handling
Native Swift package for SwiftUI rendering.
Planned features:
- Schema → SwiftUI renderer
- Native layout & styling mapping
- State & action handling
- Networking, cache & auth modules
Status: Initialized (empty package)
Flutter implementation of Render Protocol.
Planned features:
- Schema → Flutter widget renderer
- Platform-agnostic UI definitions
- Shared schema compatibility with SwiftUI
Status: Initialized (empty package)
Jetpack Compose (Kotlin) renderer.
Planned features:
- Schema → Compose UI mapping
- Android-first optimizations
- Parity with SwiftUI & Flutter APIs
Status: Initialized (empty package)
Backend reference implementation.
Planned features:
- Schema storage & versioning
- Authentication & authorization
- UI delivery APIs
- Future UI builder & AI integration
Language/runtime is intentionally flexible to allow experimentation.
Status: Initialized (empty package)
Render Protocol is designed so that:
- An LLM can reason about supported UI components
- Generated responses can return UI instead of text
- Client SDKs can safely render AI-generated layouts
This enables:
- Conversational UIs
- Adaptive screens
- Context-aware layouts
- Early architecture & schema design phase
- APIs and folder structures are not final
- Expect breaking changes during v0.x
- Contributions & discussions welcome once foundations are set
- GitHub Org: https://github.com/renderprotocol
Licensing details will be finalized once core architecture stabilizes. The intent is to keep Render Protocol open, extensible, and community-friendly.
Render once. Control everywhere.
