How Facebook’s Recently Open-Sourced Rebound Was Used In Chat Heads

Facebook announced at its Mobile@Scale event in October that it would open-source a spring dynamics animation library for Android, Rebound, which allows developers to animate user interface elements based on the rules of physics and spring forces. Software Engineer Will Bailey offered more details on Rebound in a post on the social network’s engineering blog.

Facebook announced at its Mobile@Scale event in October that it would open-source a spring dynamics animation library for Android, Rebound, which allows developers to animate user interface elements based on the rules of physics and spring forces. Software Engineer Will Bailey offered more details on Rebound in a post on the social network’s engineering blog.

Bailey described how Rebound was used in the Chat Heads feature of its Facebook Messenger applications:

Designers at Facebook work with a tool called Quartz Composer to build rich interactive prototypes before engineering work begins.

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