Nash Vail has a passion for designing building user interfaces. He is currently a Computer Science undergrad and actively looking for internship opportunities. He has his own little blog you should check out, you can find him on Twitter, GitHub, Dribbble or shoot him a mail at hello@nashvail.me.
With so many amazing designers creating such beautiful animations, any developer would naturally want to recreate them in their own projects. Now, CSS does provide some presets for transition-timing-function, which add some level of smoothness and realism, but they are very generic, aren’t they? Motion curves are primarily used by animators to create advanced, realistic animations. In this article, Nash Vail will show you how motion curves work. Let’s begin!
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In this part of the tutorial Nash Vail will start by replacing the photographer’s name with the actual wallpaper image along with proper credits. During this process you’ll learn how to link a library in Xcode, as well as more on general styling and positioning of UI elements. You will learn how to save pictures to the Camera Roll and also how to run your app on a physical device. To apply all your newly learned React Native skills there is a challenge waiting for you at the end. Just like the first part, this article has five sections. Completing each section takes us a step closer to finishing our app.
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These frameworks and the whole idea of building mobile apps with JavaScript never appealed to me, though. I always thought, why not just learn Swift/Objective-C or Java and build real apps? That definitely requires a significant amount of learning, but isn’t that what we developers do and should be good at? Quickly learn new languages and frameworks? What’s the point, then? For me, the advantages never outweighed the doubts.
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