Texture VS Material Components

Compare Texture vs Material Components and see what are their differences.

Texture

Smooth asynchronous user interfaces for iOS apps. (by TextureGroup)

Material Components

[In maintenance mode] Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for iOS (by material-components)
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Texture Material Components
4 2
7,931 4,704
0.3% 0.3%
3.1 8.4
7 days ago 1 day ago
Objective-C++ Objective-C
NOASSERTION Apache License 2.0
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Texture

Posts with mentions or reviews of Texture. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-27.
  • Building Reddit’s Design System on iOS
    5 projects | /r/RedditEng | 27 Sep 2023
    Historically, Reddit has used both UIKit and Texture as layout engines to build out the Reddit app. At the time of its adoption, Texture was used as a way to build screens and have the UI update asynchronously, which mitigated frame rate hitches and optimized scroll performance. However, Texture represented a significantly different paradigm for building UI than UIKit, and prior to RPL, we had components built on both layout engines. Reusing components across these frameworks was difficult, and having to juggle two different mental models for these systems made it difficult from a developer’s perspective. As a result, we opted to deprecate and migrate off of Texture.
  • Telegram enable sign up without a SIM card
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2022
    On iOS it’s written using a fork of Texture, formerly AsyncDisplayKit. In my experience, Texture outperforms UIKit’s auto layout and rich text widgets significantly.

    https://github.com/TextureGroup/Texture

  • The SliceKit Series: Introducing Our New iOS Presentation Framework.
    1 project | /r/RedditEng | 2 Jun 2022
    In order to make our engineers' lives easier and gain consistency in our user experience, we needed a declarative abstraction on top of UIKit. We chose UIKit because after experimenting with SwiftUI, Texture, ComponentKit, and other alternatives, UIKit offers us the right combination of features, including:
  • Ideas for research topic (thesis/dissertation) that includes iOS Development
    1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 26 Apr 2021
    Ok thanks. I've included a link for everyone else. Texture

Material Components

Posts with mentions or reviews of Material Components. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Texture and Material Components you can also consider the following projects:

IGListKit - A data-driven UICollectionView framework for building fast and flexible lists.

animated-tab-bar - :octocat: RAMAnimatedTabBarController is a Swift UI module library for adding animation to iOS tabbar items and icons. iOS library made by @Ramotion

ComponentKit - A React-inspired view framework for iOS.

Atlas

Eureka - Elegant iOS form builder in Swift

SwiftyUI - High performance and lightweight UIView, UIImage, UIImageView, UIlabel, UIButton, Promise and more.

Material - A UI/UX framework for creating beautiful applications.

Pulley - A library to imitate the iOS 10 Maps UI.

folding-cell - :octocat: 📃 FoldingCell is an expanding content cell with animation made by @Ramotion

AsyncDisplayKit - Smooth asynchronous user interfaces for iOS apps.

IQKeyboardManager - Codeless drop-in universal library allows to prevent issues of keyboard sliding up and cover UITextField/UITextView. Neither need to write any code nor any setup required and much more.