Automatic focus detection with relative threshold-aware cell visibility for a scrolling cell collection

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory;
• a display device to render a graphical user interface (GUI);
• and
• a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory and the display device, to:
• identify a visible portion of a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the visible portion of the GUI includes a plurality of cells;
• determine, by the processing device, a plurality of distance values, wherein each distance value of the plurality of distances values indicates a distance to a focus threshold in the GUI that a cell of the plurality of cells of the visible portion of the GUI has traveled since the visible portion became visible in the GUI, wherein the distance value comprises a relative threshold visibility value;
• and
• modify a behavior of the visible portion of the GUI based on the distance value of each of the plurality of cells.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause a processing device to perform operations comprising:

• identifying a visible portion of a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the visible portion of the GUI includes a plurality of cells;
• determining, by a processing device, a plurality of distance values, wherein each distance value of the plurality of distances values indicates a distance to a focus threshold in the GUI that a cell of the plurality of cells of the visible portion of the GUI has traveled since the visible portion became visible in the GUI, wherein the distance value comprises a relative threshold visibility value;
• and
• modifying a behavior of the visible portion of the GUI based on the distance value of each of the plurality of cells.