OK so to be faiiiir: Boox has a (problematic) SDK that allows you to integrate with what I assume is the same underlying API.

I'll loop back to why it's problematic in the next posts, but see this video for why it doesn't even fix all of OneNote:

Apparently 0.3ms still isn't fast enough...

And I don't think eInk needs 3000fps so maybe time to try a different approach...

Bought an eInk Android tablet (Boox) for a friend around Christmas.

While developing an app for it, we came to realize that only first-party drawing apps (using their C library) have acceptable latency.

This is what a stripped down Jetpack Ink API looks like on it:

Skeleton loaders are cool!

But after a bit of looking, I couldn't find an implementation in React that had the loading line persist across elements

So I built my own! It's framework agnostic & supports React/Vue

All cuz I got nerd sniped by a mockup from @pratti.bsky.social lol

sync-skeleton.dev