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Pickup In 3 minutes: Uber’s Implementation Of Live Activity On iOS

- Francesco Frison tl;dr: “From a UX perspective, we quickly recognized the unique challenge posed by Live Activities. Information on this surface is only glanced at for a few seconds at a time, and it extends beyond the boundaries of the main app. Attempting to cram the same information from our app into the Live Activity view would have been a mistake. Users would only look at it briefly, so we categorized the information based on what we believe users’ priorities would be during a trip.”

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The Evolution Of Facebook’s iOS App Architecture

tl;dr: After years of iteration, the Facebook codebase does not resemble a typical iOS codebase… The app’s codebase reflects 10 years of evolution, spurred by technical decisions necessary to support the growing number of engineers working on the app, its stability, and, above all, the user experience.

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