Good to read
Haptics is a small field with a lot of scattered knowledge. These are external resources we keep coming back to — worth your time if you want to understand how haptics work and how each platform expects you to use them.
Haptics: Untapped Potential — Kacper Kapuściak, Chain React 2026 A tour of how haptics work under the hood and what it takes to make an ordinary mobile interaction something users can actually feel.
Platform guidelines
Section titled “Platform guidelines” Playing haptics — Apple Human Interface Guidelines Apple's design guidance on when haptics help, the standard iOS feedback patterns, and how to keep custom haptics consistent with the system.
Implement haptics on Android — Android Developers How Android's vibration actuators, primitives, and constants work, plus how to design rich feedback that degrades gracefully across devices.