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📖 Carolopedia › ShimGuide page
📖What it means
The thin layer an app calls instead of reaching into working code directly. It keeps apps as transparency surfaces: the shim does the reading, the app only renders.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: App
The app renders; the shim is what it is allowed to read through.
Not: Droid
A shim only reads and shapes data; a droid performs work.
🗣️Also called
adapterboundary layeraccessor