alt Hacker News> Liquid Glass isn't an optional decoration, it's the name of the new system-wide UI
Of course it’s optional. Some of the most popular apps on the planet ignore the local UI conventions of their parent OSes entirely.
TikTok is a Flutter app. It looks identical on iOS and Android. It uses basically no native UI elements.
It’s a pretty well-known strategy to create apps that look identical on all platforms so that you lessen your customer confusion and your support burden. The fact that Spotify, Facebook, Uber, and Reddit look exactly the same no matter what platform you’re on is more important than complying with OS design guidelines and UI elements.
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Exactly. Branding and UX are breaking out of the box for guidelines in the successful platforms. You want to be able to pick up any device and have the user know exactly what theyre doing
I thought TikTok used native implementations and Lynx (their cross-platform framework)
> Spotify, Facebook, Uber, and Reddit
And I hate every one of those apps (well, back when I used Facebook, years ago, I did), because they’re just bad iOS citizens. I, as most iOS users do, don’t care what apps look on Android. For Android users, it’s the same with iOS. Making shitty cross platform apps is all about branding and saving some money for developers, nothing about the users.