Kyle Macomber ✓

@kylemacomber

Co-founder & CEO @Bitrig · Co-creator #SwiftUI at Apple

5 660Followers

135Following

687Posts total

1.2MViews on collected posts

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Kyle Macomber ✓@kylemacomber16 Sep

https://t.co/i0JP68XbOS 2.5K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kyle Macomber ✓@kylemacomber16 Sep

The gold standard fluid interactions on iOS are built using in-process client animations (like SwiftUI does it) and not render-server animations (like CoreAnimation does it). This is common knowledge inside of Apple’s UI framework and system experience teams. A close inspection

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Kyle Macomber ✓@kylemacomber16 Sep

On re-read last sentence is stronger than I intended. Client vs server animation is a perfectly valid design debate. It’s the claim that SwiftUI is not native BECAUSE it does client-side animations that I was trying to refute. 6.5K views · 86 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kyle Macomber ✓@kylemacomber16 Sep

If you want to learn more about how SwiftUI animation works, and that in fact most of the time its animations run off the main thread, check out: https://t.co/7dsVwLpfFR 19.3K views · 151 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Kyle Macomber ✓@kylemacomber16 Sep

@kylemacomber I worked on UIKit for 3 years before co-creating SwiftUI. This animation model wasn't an accident, my number one goal with it was to solve this problem! 5.8K views · 95 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Kyle Macomber ✓@kylemacomber16 Sep

Fun fact: the creator of CoreAnimation is one of the creators of SwiftUI! The decision to run animations in the app process rather than the render server (as CoreAnimation does) was one of the earliest and most fundamental decisions we made when designing SwiftUI. Some of the 342.3K views · 1.6K likes · 119 reposts · 51 replies Open on X →

Kyle Macomber ✓@kylemacomber15 Sep

SwiftUI isn’t native and here’s why SwiftUI apps may sometimes feel janky. It ditches the key element that made animations run so smoothly on iOS since the original iPhone: Core Animation. In SwiftUI animations run in-app without CA backing. Block the main thread: SwiftUI ball ht

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views19 302this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %341.02%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.52%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	19 302	4 175	4.62×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.4× audience	2.5× audience	1.36×
Engagement rate	0.52%	1.41%	0.37×

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