Visual Challenge - Twitter

[krdmllr]

Here is my entry for the visual challenge, a replica of two pages of the twitter app. I did the whole development on android and only modified the tab bar icons to fit for iOS before taking the screenshots.

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I do not think i used any controls that get modified by visuals but i found some places where visuals could have helped me (labels, colors, tab bar).

What went well?

• Layouting was really easy
• Frames are really nice to round things
• The performance is unexpected good when i consider that i nested far more controls than i normaly would ...

What went not so well?

• I put a content page inside a navigation page inside a tabbed page inside a master detail page ... which works but i could not remove the hamburger icon from the navigation bar and just use the new TitleView. I created my own navigation bar in the end where i could layout everything as i wanted, but i think a simple property to disable the icon would be nice. But i think that is not the scope of visual ;)
• As you can see the status bar is behaving differently on iOS and Android, i think this happens because i disabled the navigation bar and build my own one. This problem also exists when working with a device that has a notch or if a device has rounded corners.
• I had to implement an effect to get rid of the image shifting in the android tab bar

What would i like:

• Some kind of unified safe area for device notches and rounded corners
• Rounded corners on all controls, i wrap everything in a frame when i want a rounded corner ... would be nice to avoid that rendering and code overhead
• Unified colors and default colors. I did not set any colors aside from the seperator lines and as you can see the font color is quite different on iOS and Android. I think this should be unified aswell and an easy way to override it would be great.
• Fully unify the bottom tab bar and give us an easy option to modify the image shifting on android (disable it by default)

[fewbackseven]

//Great work.. Loved it.. Thanks for sharing. Learned a lot, especially how to work on image.