Sure you can animate, that is what WebGL and SVG allow for.
Ah, like breaking Android UIs when dealing with fragment management or misplaced constraints on ConstraintLayout, usually only solvable after one finds the golden post on medium?
Ah, like breaking Android UIs when dealing with fragment management or misplaced constraints on ConstraintLayout, usually only solvable after one finds the golden post on medium?
Furthermore, ConstraintLayout is a brand-new layout manager. Totally agree that there's bugs in it but nothing that could be called arcane knowledge. Do you have any examples for the actually arcane layout managers? Relative, Layout, etc?
Yeah, sure. Try animating an element without breaking layout. Trying animating an element that gets destroyed (oh, it's impossible, there are no events for when element gets removed). Try smooth animation while changing layout. And so on and so on.
Yeah, sure. If you constrain your entire animation to just the one box of a single SVG/Canvas/WebGL, then you can pretend that everything is fine. In reality when you try to animate anything, you're really constrained to animations that don't force re-flow. So, about 3 of them. And you have to be really careful (transposing an element's position will leave gaps).
Meanwhile both desktop and mobile have hundreds of animations big and small that are either impossible or extremely hard to do in a consistent manner on the web.