seemack
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Comment · 2 months ago
Riffing of the predictability of an adjustable distance, a similar option might be something like a marker/inverse colour applied to a line immediately before the scroll. The marker would help orientation after the scroll and disappear after some time. You could also scan the text of course but a marker would be much faster.
Comment · 2 months ago
Sounds like something a bot would say!
Comment · 4 months ago
Ty for the kind words! I completely agree with you too. Compose added a Crossfade modifier that makes it super easy to apply the animation to a content switch but it's often applied in the lazy way you mentioned.
Comment · 4 months ago
Appreciate heads-up! I just checked Chrome on my Android device and it's all working fine for me. I don't know if I set the page up weirdly but I have to refresh the page sometimes for the videos to show up.
Comment · 4 months ago
I've seen a few comments along the lines of wishing that the author had included examples of solutions. I wrote a very similar post recently that details both the issues with the animations, very similar to this article, as well as how I improved them.
For anyone curious, https://www.thisischris.dev/projects/project-6/
Comment · 4 months ago
I did just this recently. I detailed the imperfections first, which were similar to this in concept, and then walked through the improvements I made.
If you're curious, you can see it here: https://www.thisischris.dev/projects/project-6/
Comment · 8 months ago
Artists benefit hugely from the extra horsepower. My brother works in the animation industry and uses an ipad as his primary work device when travelling.
Comment · 1 year ago
I do the same and I also find that it greatly improves how rapidly I can context-switch back into the work, even after a weekend away.
Comment · 1 year ago
You realize of course that you are also on HN and thus this apparent dichotomous behaviour applies to you as well? I imagine you have some reason for why it doesn't and I think you'll find that it can just as easily apply to everyone else.
Comment · 1 year ago
From what I've seen,the refractions happen in predictable contexts so I suspect that they'll be able to create shaders, etc that will limit the performance hit
Comment · 1 year ago
It's a good question! I've been hearing the joke for years that RN architects don't have any android devices to test on.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was glad to see the discussion as well but it feels like the downsides were also very understated. Working on an RN app as a native dev requires a lot of cross-domain knowledge that isn't typical for a native dev.
Comment · 1 year ago
Blazing fast is a bold claim. I use this app nearly every day on a brand new Pixel 9 Pro and, while much improved from a few years ago, it is far from "blazing fast".
For example, I just recorded myself tapping on a product in the Product list screen and the delay between the pressed state appearing and the first frame of the screen transition animation is more than half a second. The animation itself then takes 300ms which is a generally accepted timeframe for screen animations. But that half second where I'm waiting for the app to respond after I've tapped a given element is painful. UX studies indicate 0.1s as a number where an application no longer feels instantaneous. (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-...)
Contrast this against something like the Slack app where the screen is navigating even before the pressed animation has appeared. Or for an app with probably not as much engineering focus, Fastmail, which begins the screen transition within 100ms of the pressed animation state appearance.
Comment · 2 years ago
I wrote an app to log mileage while doing deliveries, etc for my small business. It gives me a small tax benefit at the end of the year. To make it more fun, I gave the UI a "terminal" flair.
I wrote it over the course of a week or so and I use it frequently.
It's not that it won't see the light of day for anyone else but it's a very specific niche so I doubt anyone would even find it on the app store
If anyone's curious: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.thisischris...
Comment · 2 years ago
No hate but saying that collectors simply gather things that others made is rather dismissive. It may certainly be true in some cases but it's also very possible that true, potentially even ingenious, effort was required on the part of the collector to build, maintain, and be knowledgeable about the collection.