The inline "thinking" indicator is settled — a native SF Symbol sparkle that shimmers next to the rotating word. That one I'm happy with and don't want to touch.
But I keep coming back to this pixel-art Claude animation on LottieFiles and it's charming: https://lottiefiles.com/free-animation/claude-h8K0CcrGcz (Lottie Simple License, ~4.4 KB). The Ask Lucid screen is a big empty black void before you send your first message — right now it's just the "Ask Lucid about your day…" line. A small looping character sitting there would give it some personality and make the blank state feel less dead.
To be clear about where it can and can't go: it does NOT belong in the inline thinking row. That row lives inside the @expo/ui <Host> native tree, and RN views (including LottieView) can't nest in there — trying that is what gave us the floating-overlay-over-the-text mess earlier. The empty state is a plain RN region though, so a Lottie there is fine.
Cost side, so future-me remembers: this pulls in lottie-react-native (a native module), so it needs a fresh dev-client build (ios:local) and the .lottie/.json bundled as an asset. Not worth a rebuild on its own — bundle it with the next time I'm already rebuilding for something else.
Nice-to-have, no rush.
The inline "thinking" indicator is settled — a native SF Symbol sparkle that shimmers next to the rotating word. That one I'm happy with and don't want to touch.
But I keep coming back to this pixel-art Claude animation on LottieFiles and it's charming: https://lottiefiles.com/free-animation/claude-h8K0CcrGcz (Lottie Simple License, ~4.4 KB). The Ask Lucid screen is a big empty black void before you send your first message — right now it's just the "Ask Lucid about your day…" line. A small looping character sitting there would give it some personality and make the blank state feel less dead.
To be clear about where it can and can't go: it does NOT belong in the inline thinking row. That row lives inside the
@expo/ui<Host>native tree, and RN views (including LottieView) can't nest in there — trying that is what gave us the floating-overlay-over-the-text mess earlier. The empty state is a plain RN region though, so a Lottie there is fine.Cost side, so future-me remembers: this pulls in
lottie-react-native(a native module), so it needs a fresh dev-client build (ios:local) and the .lottie/.json bundled as an asset. Not worth a rebuild on its own — bundle it with the next time I'm already rebuilding for something else.Nice-to-have, no rush.