@emilkowalski: New skill: /animate-expo All the animation knowledge, but for your native apps. React Native and Expo: gestures, sheet…

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Emil Kowalski
@emilkowalski
New skill: /animate-expo All the animation knowledge, but for your native apps. React Native and Expo: gestures, sheets, haptics, screen transitions, and more. Made in collaboration with the @expo team.
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Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski
As always, I'll be sending a few example prompts that work well with this skill later today:
Evan Bacon @Baconbrix
Nice
Oğuzhan Çakmak @omc345
I like relying on iOS's default animations instead of reinventing them. Also I like the heuristics to decide animations. I' have strong conviction on these libraries: pulsar(synch) > expo-haptics(async) rive > lottie
Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski
To be clear, I agree that using iOS’s defaults is the right way to go if you want to optimize for the best feel and animations. There are just cases where using React Native with something like Expo is the right choice. As always, it depends.
austin @austinskhosana_
let’s fucking goooo <3 ily emil!
Kevin Jayadi @kevinjayadi
thanks for being so generous to us 💙
Rami Alhamad @RamiMatic
Sweet, would this work for native swift iOS too?
Luong NGUYEN @luongnv89
many thanks, I have all your skills indexed here: https://luongnv.com/asm/#/profile/emilkowalski…
Thamsanqa - oss/acc @dr_33_m
I was literally thinking of you saying if only Emil made a react native animation skill! power
Nafiz @fuadnafiz98
thanks!!! Can it work if i work on electron apps?
Buswe @buswe_com
Packaging gestures, sheets, and haptics as a skill is exactly what makes native animations come out consistent on every screen.
Mo RezaAli @Mo_ali
Native animations with proper haptics and gestures still feel rare enough that this fills a gap.

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