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Slo-Mo: Ionic 2 Alpha vs 1.1 Sliding Animation on iPhone

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The Ionic team announced the alpha version of Ionic 2 yesterday. According to the article , Ionic 2 has a "new animation system" as well as "dramatically improved performance". I recorded two videos in slow motion comparing the difference between sliding forward and back using the default templates for Ionic 1 and Ionic 2, as well as the built-in Settings app.  on the iPhone 6 running iOS 8.3 and the iPhone 4 running 7.1.2. For each test app, I ran ionic run ios --device  to install it onto the physical device. The things I noticed in Ionic 2 are: On the iPhone 6, the sliding animation seems to be less choppy than on Ionic 1. After tapping a list item there is a longer delay than in Ionic 1 before the new screen starts sliding into view. On the iPhone 4, there is a noticeable blank-out flicker before sliding in the new view. Watch my videos and see if you agree: iPhone 6 iPhone 4 For reference, here is the ionic info output for each of th