Funny that a lot of this is focused on iOS. What would Android "Native" even look like? Would you have to make your entire app Material (You)?

Thank you for writing this. Curious if you were starting from scratch, are there other libraries you would pick/avoid not mentioned here? Thinking about tinkering with RN in my free time more (it's been a while since I last did)

Hadn’t considered all of the menus and gestures iOS provides these days. Even MacOS lacks them. May be a good reason to drop down to swift for certain UIs!

Question about the hairline borders, if you don't mind - we're discussing adding this to CSS, with the current proposal at <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3720#issuecomment-2368916115>. I'm trying to avoid that "unexpected tiny gap" issue you mention. [...]

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hey can I ask, why aren't you using animations that are more similar to system animations on android? f.e the animation when you tap a post from the TL is very "meh" to say the least. 😅 also there's just some small details that simply feel off like the black screen when you're leaving the composer

Thanks for sharing! Its truly in the tiny details to get a native-feel! Simple but so hard to do :)

Great stuff! The app feels leaps and bounds better than when I first tried over a year ago. Kudos to the team

Great post! Thanks for sharing.

Great post! Thank you for sharing!

Great post, but aren't squishy nav tab icons a bit like the opposite of native? Tbh I find they feel kinda out of place since hardly any popular apps have tabs that visually behave like that, and it kinda goes in a different direction than the other (great!) tweaks mentioned?

I think I found a bug while reading your article: • clicking on the embedded post wouldn't start the media, but open the post in the background • going back from the opened post wouldn't get you to the original post in the timeline but to the very top

Curious your critique on Lemmy client wefwef.app

Posts like this is the main reason why I came to Bluesky. Thank you so much!

I have absolutely zero experience coding and this piece had me captivated from start to finish, well done 👏🏼 I’m grateful for y’all’s work on making the app feel more polished, it hasn’t gone unnoticed!

This is a super informative post - thanks for putting so much detail into this, Samuel! My team is building a React Native app, and there is so much good stuff in here!

Great write-up. "Feels native" is a subjective expression in my opinion. iOS 14 modal is one where it just requires the extra config with RN and if not done can be easily called out. Beyond this, "feels native" in my opinion is also associated with how polished an app is compared to the top apps.

Thank you, it definitely feels more native now! You touch on it with squishy buttons and animated navigation, but I'm hoping for a day when posts visually react to being pressed on android! Each post is a "button" to navigate to a new page and it would be so nice if it reacted to being pressed 😍

Great post. I wasn’t sure if this was built using React Native - it’s very nice indeed!

This post is making me think I need to commit to making the jump to RN. Feels like it might be time.

Thank you for writing this post! As a non-developer, who uses the iPhone app* on my iPad, I appreciated the section discussing barriers to an iPad implementation, Thank y’all as always for being thoughtful when designing the apps ❤️ (*Deleted previous post due to typo)