bottom sheet

During my market research, I found that the Google News app uses a native bottom sheet for displaying in-depth information, a feature frequently used across different products.

I shared this design exploration with my team, and we agreed that the bottom sheet component could be well-suited for presenting our weather information. It offers a more engaging and convenient experience, while also providing a native app feel for our audience.

To validate my thinking and make sure it’s technically doable, I also chatted with our engineers from iOS and Android:

“This looks great — I’d love the app to work like that!I think it’s technically doable, but needs quite a lot of consideration…There’s quite a lot of information that’s needed to populate the popover (and I think this is may be difficult for ABL to manage), so maybe we’d need to get the data from Weather directly, which might be a big challenge.”

Alex C (iOS)

“Technically doable from the Android side - We can control what we want to put on the top bar, as it's now completely customised.

But as an android person, some people might not expect this interaction on the top right as that's a place for a menu usually in the material design system - so this might require us to do some user testing to see if people will click it.”
Tom C (Android)

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