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Are you in the US? I seem to be having the same problem, but in reverse - Android-isms in iOS; I am in central EU, designers/client are from Ireland.

It appears to me that they also do not differentiate between screens and modals and just pick at random which flow will be which. I am not faulting them for that, as Apple has gone pretty wild with modals lately too, but still, at least some consistency would be nice.

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My last experience in mobile dev was that everyone wanted everything to look like Material UI everywhere, because that's what was trendy on the Web. And that even Android had, bizarrely, pretty poor support for Material compared with the Web, so it ended up being a huge pain on both mobile platforms. I guess it's like how you used to have to call out to JavaScript on Android to get a decent Google Maps address & location library because the Web versions were better than the native Android one, which made no damn sense but seems to be part of a pattern with Google of treating their own mobile OS as a second class citizen compared to the Web.

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