Not having an iPhone: how do you access this side navigation? I don't immediately see any clues in the app. Is it the buttons near the top (three horizontal lines)?
That being said, it kind of reminds me of Windows Phone's swipe to the side. Windows Phone does give clues that there's more to the page by cutting off part of the edge. This is the default design language for Windows Phone.
On the iPhone, it almost looks like there's a built-in or popular library these developers are using to enable this. Any word on how this is accomplished?
It's actually really simple. There's actually two different modes, but they're accomplished the same way. One is that menu is off screen and slides in to overlap the normal view. The second is the the view is in the background, and the normal view slides off to reveal the menu.
In both cases, you simply have a front view and a rear view. All you need to do is adjust the frame (positioning) of one of the views and animate that transition. Animating view transitions is really easy in iOS. So the pseudo code for this basically becomes:
Yeah, I was wondering more if this was baked-in, or if there was a framework handling it, or if someone just saw another developer doing it and everyone decided it looked nice and implemented it on their own. They all look incredibly similar.
Yeah, it's the three lines button. I find it kinda jarring not having any visual indication from the button that it's going to be sliding. Would be interesting to experiment with making it look more like a tab you can use to pull the content to the side with or something like that.
That being said, it kind of reminds me of Windows Phone's swipe to the side. Windows Phone does give clues that there's more to the page by cutting off part of the edge. This is the default design language for Windows Phone.
On the iPhone, it almost looks like there's a built-in or popular library these developers are using to enable this. Any word on how this is accomplished?