Steve Troughton-Smith
Pixelmator Pro on iPad is full of unique and interesting UI for prospective iPad app developers. It’s worth taking a look even if you’d never personally use the app
Jan 30 at 12:02amIvory for iOS
Show threadNico ReeseJan 30
@stroughtonsmith How do you live with the slow cursor movement (even at the max setting)? I feel like it’s way too slow on a 27-inch display. I would really like to do more with my iPad on an external display but this totally prevents it for me.
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithJan 30
@nicoreese are you using a mouse? Is your display at 30fps? I’m confused by the question. The trackpad cursor moves like it does on my Mac
Show threadNico ReeseJan 30
@stroughtonsmith Yes, using a Magic Mouse. Looks like iPad only has 4/5 of the movement distance compared to Mac connected to the same Studio Display at the max speed level.
Show threadMarc PalmerJan 30
@stroughtonsmith hmm I feel like I have seen some UI like this somewhere before 😂. Sure its not rocket science but it certainly is an amusing coincidence. iPad here is our app
@Shareshot and the iPhone is our slightly creaky old app Captionista
Show threadMarc PalmerJan 30
@stroughtonsmith Also 🤔 how do they get the sidebar below the main nav on iPad? Presumably private API? Movable inner window panels instead of inspectors is… a choice.
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithJan 30
@marcpalmer it’s not a split view/sidebar, of course
Show threadMarc PalmerJan 30
@stroughtonsmith Ah yeah. Hmmm.
Show threadKyle BashourJan 30
@marcpalmer @stroughtonsmith is just, not a sidebar?
Show threadMarc PalmerJan 30
@kylebshr Yeah seems so. Fun cos you can’t then have a nav stack in it.
Show threadKyle BashourJan 30
@marcpalmer why not?
Show threadMarc PalmerJan 30
@kylebshr well I should clarify I meant if they are using SwiftUI. Unless I’m mistaken Apple still haven’t made a way for SwiftUI to create a new “presentation context” which would allow you to embed multiple NavigationStack in the same view graph. They could do it with another UIWindow but not with SwiftUI lifecycle as far as I know?
Show threadKyle BashourJan 30
@marcpalmer you can do anything you can do in UIKit with representables :) and I very much doubt it’s a SwiftUI app
Show threadMarc PalmerJan 30
@kylebshr Haha yeah that’s cheating 😀
Show threadRaphaJan 30
@stroughtonsmith do you happen to know the ratio of SwiftUI to UIKit here?
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithJan 30
@virtualrapha I don't know about the iPad version, but the Mac version of Pixelmator doesn't link SwiftUI at all
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithJan 30
@virtualrapha the iPad version appears to use lots of SwiftUI, though it's encrypted so I can't really glean any more info than that. Somebody from the team would have to chime in