Yup, but it's different from the UI thread which is what counts for me. For what it's worth unless you're on Vulkan(which few Android devices support) you're g

Yup, but it's different from the UI thread which is what counts for me. For what it's worth unless you're on Vulkan(which few Android devices support) you're going to be limited to a single dispatch thread by GLES' threading semantics anyway. I still rest my point that they're doing layout, which is fine but doesn't consist of multi-threaded rendering. Using their approach they're still going to have to set some sort of absolute layout views which must go through a measure and layout pass on the UI thread.