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Lickability

For the longest time, Apple’s guidance was to avoid Android-y floating action buttons (FABs) like the plague. But it seems they’re slowly coming around to them? We love to see it.

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Lickability replied to Lickability

Taking a closer look at that footer, you’ll notice the variable blur effect. This has been showing up in a TON of first-party apps.

Achieving this effect is quite difficult. There’s nothing in Figma that lets you do this and the API to do this is private (for now) 😕

Lickability replied to Lickability

Some people mimic this by making a blurred overlay and gradient masking it, but that creates a nasty halo effect when you dim the opacity of a blur layer. It’s not worth it, don’t do it.

(By the way, we created this graphic using
Janum Trivedi’s VariableBlurView. Very fun to play with but not App Store-safe!!)

github.com/jtrivedi/VariableBl

Lickability replied to Lickability

Here’s another common pattern that’s highly polished here: the media grid. You’d normally see this in a social media timeline, but we love the nested corner radius the grid items, how inner corners are sharper, and how items delightfully spring in and out of the light box view.

Lickability replied to Lickability

When you scroll in the timeline, there’s some interesting behavior with the nav bar title — it collapses to the leading edge rather than the center. The stock nav bar, with centered text and trailing buttons, looks a bit lopsided; this is a nice fix!

twitter.com/SebJVidal/status/1

Lickability replied to Lickability

Next: card swipe actions. This rounded style is hard to replicate with public APIs, especially SwiftUI List. Most people give up and write a custom implementation, which is a shame since you relinquish a lot of accessibility features when you do that.

Lickability replied to Lickability

Apple uses a few private swipe action styles — circular in Mail, or round-rects in Weather. Seb Vidal is taking one for the team by attempting to get his swizzled implementation through App Review.

Godspeed, soldier 🫡

twitter.com/SebJVidal/status/1

Lickability replied to Lickability

Thanks for following along! Hope you enjoyed this peek into our own design journal. 📓😊

CausticMango replied to Lickability

@lickability You may love to see it, but I deeply dislike them. It’s disappointing to see Apple start using them, too.

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