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What is Digia Studio?

Digia Studio is a low-code workspace for building native mobile apps with a server-driven UI (SDUI) engine. You design pages, bind data, and wire actions in the browser, while Digia ships that configuration to lightweight SDKs in real-time. This lets you deploy instant updates without waiting for app store builds.

Digia combines native performance with instant updates for copy, layouts, and experiments. It empowers developers, designers, and product managers to ship faster, from MVP to production scale.

Why Digia Studio?

Traditional native development slows you down with long review cycles and rigid builds. Digia Studio decouples your UI from your binary to enable:

  • Instant Updates – Push configuration changes through Digia Hot Reload; no app store reviews required.

  • Extend with Code – Write custom widgets or native modules in Swift/Kotlin/Dart when you need more than the built-in library.

  • Safe Release Workflows – Manage dev, staging, and prod environments with built-in versioning and rollback.

  • Design System Sync – Share reliable components and tokens across teams to prevent UI drift.

  • Role-Based Access – Designers own the pixels, PMs own the copy, and you own the logic.

How it Works

Digia decoupled the visual layer from the underlying native code, enabling a seamless workflow from design to deployment.

For a deep dive into the request flow and rendering engine, read the Digia Architecture & Runtime guide.

The Building Blocks

  • Server-Driven UI (SDUI) – UI and logic ship as JSON, not compiled binaries. See What is SDUI?

  • Pages & Components – Pages are full screens; components are reusable pieces with their own inputs and actions.

  • Variables & Actions – Variables store state; actions update that state, call APIs, or navigate.

  • Environments – Each environment (dev, staging, prod) has unique access keys and release history.

Who Is It For?

  • Frontend & mobile developers – Build logic, wire APIs, and extend the runtime when needed.

  • Designers / UX engineers – Turn design systems into live components without Xcode or Android Studio.

  • Product and growth teams – Launch experiments or localized flows with guardrails and auditability.

  • Agencies and enterprises – Manage multiple apps or brands from one shared workspace.

Is Digia Studio right for your use case?

Good fit when you need

  • Fast iterations on content-heavy or transactional apps

  • Shared UI across iOS and Android without duplicating work

  • A/B tests, merchandising, or onboarding tweaks that can’t wait for app-store review

  • Hooks for custom analytics, payments, or platform SDK features

Probably not ideal when you need

  • Always-offline apps with large local datasets

  • Highly custom native rendering (AR, heavy 3D, high-frequency graphics)

  • Real-time workloads that are better in handwritten code

Choose your next step

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