Flow 1.4.4
This release is a solid hodgepodge of nice updates. In particular, we’ve improved import and export, fixed a glaring issue with round corners, and have introduced a new kind of layer - a plain layer, a boring layer, with nothing in it… This is great news for exporting properly structured <divs>
or CALayers
instead of being restricted to shape / image / text layers.
Swift Update
Update export to Swift 5.
- iOS template now exports Swift 5 code.
- Yup.
Sketch Importing
We updated a few things with regards to importing Sketch files.
- Reverse order of layers copied from sketch so they show up in the proper order in Flow
- Add ability to represent interaction connections
- Import hot spot layers from Sketch files
- Load sketch flow connections
- Preserve artboard IDs
p.s. If you’re crafty you’ll figure out what we’re doing with the last four tickets in the list above
UX/UX
A couple tiny fixes.
- Text is smoother on screen because we’re now updating the backing scale factor when changing zoom level.
- Make modifying resizing constraint undoable.
Crushed
A few nasty bugs met a timely end this week.
- Duplicating a layer by option-dragging now doesn’t not show the layer (i.e. the original layer was disappearing during the drag action)
- Tightened up resizing layers vertically (things were overstretching).
Export - iOS
You can now clip a layer to its bounds, and other lovely things.
- The masks to bounds option in Flow is now exported to iOS – this will let you do some pretty nifty things.
- Initial font sizes are now properly exported.
- There is a better way of handling autoreverse and repeat options for timelines / animations – you can mess with this in your Xcode projects.
Export - HTML (aka Corner Radii)
MMMMM. Flow wasn’t exporting corner radiuses properly, and that was a sad thing.
- Radiuses now export properly, and that IS a beautiful thing.
- They animate
Layers!
OMG. You can actually make layers that don’t have content in them. For example, if you want just a straight DIV in HTML. For example, if you was just a straight CALayer in iOS.
- Add option to create empty layer.
- Convert empty groups to layers.
- A lovely trick: if you created a group, and didn’t rename it, and remove all its things, we change its name to Layer – because having a layer called Group didn’t make sense to some of us, though it did to others, but it was the former group that won the UX battle.
- Patch up bugs related to allowing empty layers (which some of us think are empty groups - and, technically they are correct)
Trials
Like our trial? You can now click on the pink button to jump to the license purchase page.
- Do it.
- Do it now.
- You won’t regret it.