As a native iOS mobile developer, I was curious so I got into the TestFlight and downloaded the demo app. Thoughts:
* Overall, not bad. Using React Native is far better than trying to mimic platform UI in the web, which is always terrible.
* When tapping on an item on the “Feed”, the transition is made to the details _and then_ the navigation bar has a sudden title transition. This is weird.
* The button in the upper left to switch between light and dark mode is nice but it should default to the system setting. It did not for me.
* The Notifications tab content isn’t scrollable at all on my phone. Seems like a bug.
* If you tap on an item in Notifications you navigate deeper in, but when you hit back you are back on the Feed tab.
Coming from native app development, it has the normal uncanny valley feeling that React Native gives off but for normal users they may not notice it as much.
Glad to hear! That title jump and dark mode stuff we can fix, and honestly we can make it feel a lot better. As you can maybe guess our small team had a hundred things to pull off to launch so that demo app actually just has minimal investment. Appreciate the feedback!
I can answer that: I've used plenty of apps the past decade that tried to do this and each and every app "felt wrong". You know it within seconds that an app is not using native UI. There is always some basic interaction missing or just not working. Be it something simple like swiping navigation from the side of the screen or text fields that just do not work as expected.
No, because you can see when a website is using design components that imitate a particular platform (iOS, Android), like Ionic. Because the UI elements wouldn’t naturally look like that on a website if it wasn’t. They would look like standard HTML form elements.
* Overall, not bad. Using React Native is far better than trying to mimic platform UI in the web, which is always terrible. * When tapping on an item on the “Feed”, the transition is made to the details _and then_ the navigation bar has a sudden title transition. This is weird. * The button in the upper left to switch between light and dark mode is nice but it should default to the system setting. It did not for me. * The Notifications tab content isn’t scrollable at all on my phone. Seems like a bug. * If you tap on an item in Notifications you navigate deeper in, but when you hit back you are back on the Feed tab.
Coming from native app development, it has the normal uncanny valley feeling that React Native gives off but for normal users they may not notice it as much.