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Canonical
on 13 January 2014

Sheets transition


We’ve recently been exploring how the share transitions should work when you’re previewing a photo in gallery mode. Our main goal is that there is a consistent transition for sharing photos across the phone.

This is the latest iteration of the explorations we’ve been doing, and, as such, these transitions are still work in progress, but certainly worth sharing.

Step by step


Video: Sharing a photo in photo gallery mode

The first transition happens when you select “Share” from the toolbar. This takes you to a ‘content picker’ mode where you can select where you’d like to share your photo (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

The intention is that the ‘content picker’ transition is similar to the ‘page stack’ one — which takes you deeper into the app — but because you’re going into a ‘content picker’ mode the transition needs to be slightly different. That difference is the direction: instead of going from right to left it goes bottom to top.

Once you’ve selected how to share your photo, the screen splits slightly below where you’ve tapped (in the example, below Facebook), and there is a subtle transparency fade so that the transition is less jarring.

In the next step, the transition takes you to an embedded Facebook share page, where you can write a description about the photo you’re posting. Once you select the description box, the OSK keyboard comes from the bottom to top, something that is always consistent across the phone.

When you click “Post”, a similar transition to the selecting share transition, but reversed, takes you back to the photo.

Your feedback

As I’ve mentioned before, this is still work in progress, but we’re really interested in hearing your thoughts — let us know what you think in the comments.

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