Tweetbot 5 came out recently, and it has a custom refresh control that looks really good. It’s a simple animation, but it gets the job done, so I decided to recreate it.
Note: When I started implementing this animation I thought about implementing it as a refresh control, but it quickly started feeling like work, so I decided to just focus on the animation. Anything else is left as an exercise to the reader.
Introduction
Just like my first article, Recreating Instagram’s Page Control, in this article I will recreate a UI component from an app, in this case it’s Tweetbot’s…
This is the first part of a small project I’ve had in mind for a while, a series of articles where I recreate nice UI details of popular apps and explain step by step how it’s done.
Introduction
The Instagram app has a lot of nice UI details, one the always intrigued me is the page control, which shows a maximum of seven dots, and scrolls as you scroll between photos. As you can see in the gif below, it has three central dots that are full size, and up to two on each side that are smaller the further they…
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Emilio Peláez
I've been writing for a living for over 9 years now, but my target audience has always been computers. This is my first attempt at writing something for humans.
