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Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps

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Re: Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps

#41

I'm sort of surprised that Adobe isn't building these sorts of features into CC and that large corps like Airbnb are having to roll their own! Seems like a big market to ignore.

Aren't they part of Flash?

Nowadays the compiler also generates native code.

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post #45

Easier cross-device native animations puts a point in the 'app' column for the 'app v web-app' debate. nice one airbnb.

Stay tuned. It will work on the web as well :)

(Note that you can do this _already_ with bodymovin on the web if you want to)

Re: Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps

#48

Does anyone know a decent guide to generating these kind of things in After Effects, rather than standard video effects?

Theres plenty! Googling 'after effects shape animation' returned all of these: https://www.skillshare.com/classes/design/The-Ultimate-Guide...

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/create-shape-ve...

https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-fun-and-d...

https://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Mograph-Techni...

Re: Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps

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post #48

Does anyone know a decent guide to generating these kind of things in After Effects, rather than standard video effects?

Theres plenty! Googling 'after effects shape animation' returned all of these: https://www.skillshare.com/classes/design/The-Ultimate-Guide... https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/create-shape-ve... https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-fun-and-d... https://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Mograph-Techni...

Shape animation is the term I was looking for! Thanks.

Re: Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is your navigation lib taking advantage of this? Just wondering, seeing as how React Navigation uses the Animated API

It doesn't yet, but I hope to work in integrating these two very very soon. We have to figure out what this will look like on Android, as the TransitionCoordinator on iOS doesn't have an exact equivalent on Android.

That seems extremely interesting! So if you could pull this off, this would be like, we'd see some kind of AE animation mid View transition?
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