Lottie With Jetpack Compose
Hello, fantastic person on the internet! I hope you’re doing well.
I love to incorporate animation into components and screens. It is a fantastic way to make your app more engaging and beautiful.
Lottie, developed by Airbnb, and Jetpack Compose, the declarative UI toolkit from Google, have joined forces to simplify and enhance the animation experience for Android developers.
Lottie
Understanding Lottie in Compose is a valuable skill set to have in your toolkit.
Lottie is a declarative UI toolkit from Google that simplifies and enhances the animation experience for developers.
Implementation
First things first, we need to implement the Lottie library in our dependencies, within the gradle(Module:app):
Animation
There are several ways to incorporate…
The first method involves obtaining animations from the Lottie website.
Alternatively, you can utilize a plugin in Figma to create your own resources.
I am going to use an animation from the Lottie website:
This will generate a JSON file that you can reference in your code.
Create a package resource into your code, name this to raw, and paste the download file.
Calling
Navigate to your main activity and create a variable for calling the JSON file:
Now, let’s create the progress parameter:
Let’s call the LottieAnimation to display the animation:
It’s as simple as that; you can animate icons, screens, buttons, and any image you want for your app.
Conclusion
Lottie, along with other Jetpack Compose tools such as Canvas and the Animation library from Material 3, empowers you to develop stunning UIs for your app.
All the code and examples it is in this repository.
Happy coding ❤
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