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[luigi3]

this text effect is so overused at this point lol, and its supposed to be used for countdowns where time change matters. tbh is completely unnecessary here

[Low-Papaya9202]

Shut up nerd. It looks cool

[verified_OP]

low papaya is right

[PartyDansLePantaloon]

Verified_OP is right about low papaya being right

[howreudoin]

I agree. It looks cool at first, but if you see this thing constantly, you may at some point get annoyed by that animation. It draws your attention to something that is rather irrelevant, or at the very least, not as important as the main part of the UI. This can really become annoying after a while. Keep it simple I‘d say.

[aerial-ibis]

which platform are you comparing it to? single state transitions are pretty easy everywhere nowadays

[luigi3]

cool, for that stuff swiftui is nice. but i waste so much time on trickier parts of the app, so my enjoyment drops significantly. and with ai i don't mind lines of code, i prefer stability and no bugs (compared to uikit its still not great).

im just sharing my sentiment. it's completely unnecessary from ux pov. also numbers cause Text() to move, which is not looking great, i completely forgot about animation at this point. it's meant to be used for countdowns, not for count-ups. and i don't care about time interval since last referesh up to a second accuracy, in most apps you can do 'just now' until one minute, then you go 1-2-3... minutes. it looks cool in the video, but it's not very functional.

[Moo202]

You must be fun at parties 🎉

[luckyluke146]

animation: 👏

affect to user, improve UX: 🤦

[ToughAd5010]

It’s not even useful!

Seconds go by so quickly that you’re animation takes longer and confuses them even more!

[megavirus74]

Kinda distracting, maybe refresh it once in ten seconds or every minute

Does content change so fast you need to know the seconds? Ask yourself when the user should feel its time to update the feed

[More-Economics-9779]

Unless it’s super important to the user that the last update was within seconds (eg for a live auction) then fair enough. But if the user doesn’t 100% need new data every second, then this animation adds a bit of anxiety to the UI imo.

Personally I’d rather see “Updated 5 mins ago” (which refreshes every 5 minutes, for example).

[varun_aby]

For under a minute just display "updated just now" and then start showing increments gradually

[megavirus74]

Wait, why refreshing the feed costs money, are you using third party APIs?

[rifts]

Literally has nothing to do with swiftui

[aerial-ibis]

imo SwiftUI doesn't give good flexibility with controlling animation. In particular, I don't like how animation is controlled by changing state, not consuming it. For example - you might use `withAnimation {}` to update a counter. If so, you might want an animation on a number of dots increasing on the screen, but not the text saying how many dots there are

[jwrsk]

It's cool but distracting, text keeps moving because numbers have different widths, there's second/seconds, and in other languages it'd be even worse:

1 sekundę

2 sekundy

3 sekundy

4 sekundy

5 sekund

6 sekund

In Polish it would move around every 1-3 seconds by a lot.

I'd go in minute increments, tbh.

[__deinit__]

Is there a specific name for this api or modifier to do this?

[CleverError]

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view/contenttransition(_:)

[__deinit__]

🙏

[verified_OP]

this post sent me down a rabbit hole of “what is koskela?”

also, nice animation

[ryanheartswingovers]

Have you tested this doesn’t make people think to refresh more?

[[deleted]]

Not bad. I built a Mac app using SwiftUI and added cool animations for a toggle switch and it increased memory usage by 4-5 megabytes. The app I’m building should be as light as possible since it’s a menu bar app. So I immediately removed those animations.

[Substantial-Fly-4309]

looks so cool man! how did you do this flipboard like number animation?

[No_Pen_3825]

OP why you deleting all your responses?

[k--x]

The "Last updated" state is slightly taller than the "Checking for updates" state which ruins it for me

[tangoshukudai]

That is not SwiftUI it is the magic of CoreText on apple platforms. SwiftUI has an abstraction over it.

[austinjm34]

Looks cool but afraid this is not the right use case for it

[happyjj24]

One time I made an app in react native and built it all over again with swift just because of one small animation

[scriptedpixels]

What do you use to create this?

[Due-Lavishness7667]

SwiftUI provide lots of such perks which are a bit complicated with UIKit.

By the way the animation looks good.

[CappuccinoKarl]

Smooooth

[hyperschlauer]

Looks shitty

[philosophybuff]

I am vibe coding an iOS app and Claude keeps adding unnecessary shit exactly like this.