And if you want to use lottie outside the official envs, Skia have full support for it:
https://skia.org/docs/user/modules/skottie/
Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
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Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Again, mindset beat technology. ActionScript and Flex were more powerful than JavaScript and HTML, still the latter won because it was open.
Not just open. The standard underlying model in Flash is a stage with fixed dimensions. Great for arcade games and animations, but bad for responsive or being readable in various screen sizes. HTML can be a pain when you want to create sophisticated UI layouts, but by default it’s readable on all screens and reflows content automatically.
Flash/Silverlight could have worked for SPAs and we could have keep js/css simple for pure document pages.
I did Adobe Air desktop applications and there was no issue with scaling the application to different sizes, the Flex4 framework is still one of my favorites for layouting Applications GUIs for sure 10x better then web GUI frameworks, sometimes I wonder if the creators of angular ever in their life created a desktop or mobile application because for me the architecture seems stupid or created for a weird target audience.
Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not just open. The standard underlying model in Flash is a stage with fixed dimensions. Great for arcade games and animations, but bad for responsive or being readable in various screen sizes. HTML can be a pain when you want to create sophisticated UI layouts, but by default it’s readable on all screens and reflows content automatically.
Flash/Silverlight could have worked for SPAs and we could have keep js/css simple for pure document pages. I did Adobe Air desktop applications and there was no issue with scaling the application to different sizes, the Flex4 framework is still one of my favorites for layouting Applications GUIs for sure 10x better then web GUI frameworks, sometimes I wonder if the creators of angular ever in their life created a des…
I never understood the appeal of Angular.
The first time I heard about it was on a JavaScript meetup, where a guy praised it as the best that ever happened to JS.
He said multiple times "Yes, and we had some issues... but they came from the fact that we didn't do it like Angular intended, when we rewrote as the maintainers explained, it worked!"
I never touched it.
Went from ExtJS4, to Ember.js, to React and then I stayed there.
Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
#54Posted this because I wanted to start a discussion on the ecosystem and workflows around Lottie and animations on the web. Here are some alternative programs I found that can export Lottie files: https://www.haikuanimator.com/ https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/
Wow! I thought this just wasn't possible without AE or Haiku. Thanks a lot for linking Glaxnimate.
Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
#55Posted this because I wanted to start a discussion on the ecosystem and workflows around Lottie and animations on the web. Here are some alternative programs I found that can export Lottie files: https://www.haikuanimator.com/ https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/
Cavalry can export Lottie files: https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/
Seems it's only possible with their pro version.
Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flash/Silverlight could have worked for SPAs and we could have keep js/css simple for pure document pages. I did Adobe Air desktop applications and there was no issue with scaling the application to different sizes, the Flex4 framework is still one of my favorites for layouting Applications GUIs for sure 10x better then web GUI frameworks, sometimes I wonder if the creators of angular ever in their life created a des…
I never understood the appeal of Angular. The first time I heard about it was on a JavaScript meetup, where a guy praised it as the best that ever happened to JS. He said multiple times "Yes, and we had some issues... but they came from the fact that we didn't do it like Angular intended, when we rewrote as the maintainers explained, it worked!" I never touched it. Went from ExtJS4, to Ember.js, to React and then I s…
The appeal of AngularJS was more or less that, somewhat like Rails, it offered a One True Way that mostly worked pretty well. Overcomplicated by today's standards, sure, but remember that AngularJS was a decade ago, back when jQuery was still king and anything like architectural rigor on the frontend had yet to be imagined.
Especially with a team made up mostly of folks with less JS experience, you could better sustain velocity because you just needed one or two people who could build custom controls and otherwise handle complicated stuff, and most folks were perfectly able to build and ship features without nearly so much risk of spaghetti complications as you'd find with a less rigorous framework. That made it a good teaching and learning tool as well; you could start off a junior with a base of AngularJS-specific knowledge, and then generalize that into understanding JS proper and being able to work outside the structure AngularJS provided.
I wouldn't want to go back now, but I did and led a lot of good work with AngularJS, and used it to great effect as a mentoring tool besides. In the context of its time, it was brilliant.
Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flash/Silverlight could have worked for SPAs and we could have keep js/css simple for pure document pages. I did Adobe Air desktop applications and there was no issue with scaling the application to different sizes, the Flex4 framework is still one of my favorites for layouting Applications GUIs for sure 10x better then web GUI frameworks, sometimes I wonder if the creators of angular ever in their life created a des…
I never understood the appeal of Angular. The first time I heard about it was on a JavaScript meetup, where a guy praised it as the best that ever happened to JS. He said multiple times "Yes, and we had some issues... but they came from the fact that we didn't do it like Angular intended, when we rewrote as the maintainers explained, it worked!" I never touched it. Went from ExtJS4, to Ember.js, to React and then I s…
For me as a developer angular feels like (I can be wrong since I am not some genius that works at Google) a tool for making hello World forms , like you want to give it to soem people that do not know JavaScript and have them write code using ng-if and ng-repeats, then on top of that you add a ton of magic that is implemented in a shit way so you most of the time you get n errors when soemthing is broken and if you are lucky you get some hints.
I used react a few years ago, this tool made sense, you create Components and you implement render functions(I even used it without JSX to understand it better), the nice stuff about react was that I could put breakpoints in the code and understand everything. I did not used React recently and I am reading that the develoeprs over-complicated it.
What was great with Flex4 ,WPF, Qt is that you had enough components in the base that you could write your application super fast, I would only create custom components in rare cases like when we needed to show some graphs and bar charts, and creating custom components just implied extending a base Widget and override the render/paint function.
Yeah, I am frustrated with Web frontend and angular, my latest issue was when i deleted some unused property of an object and a GUI just stopped working(blank) without any warning or error, I could not figure this issue in a few minutes so I passed it down to the angular expert (is still not fixed yet so I am not sure what caused it it and especially why no errors)
Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
#58I hate to say it but man, I miss Flash!! The websites, interactions and animations we were able to create in it 20 years ago..! There is still nothing that comes close to productivity and quality of output. I am disappointed that Adobe butchered Flash and wasn’t able to come up with modern and mobile friendly version. The war with Apple should have pushed them forward. Instead they gave up.
Again, mindset beat technology. ActionScript and Flex were more powerful than JavaScript and HTML, still the latter won because it was open.
Not really. JS simply outpaced Flash/AS in terms of technology. Better interpreters, better tooling, better governance (and that says a lot, considering how bad the Chrome-Safari controlled web is), etc. Yes, there were a few missing high-level functional requirements that were in the Flash ecosystem. But it turns out most of them are "easy" to implement/port/provide. (See Ruffle.)
Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never understood the appeal of Angular. The first time I heard about it was on a JavaScript meetup, where a guy praised it as the best that ever happened to JS. He said multiple times "Yes, and we had some issues... but they came from the fact that we didn't do it like Angular intended, when we rewrote as the maintainers explained, it worked!" I never touched it. Went from ExtJS4, to Ember.js, to React and then I s…
The appeal of AngularJS was more or less that, somewhat like Rails, it offered a One True Way that mostly worked pretty well. Overcomplicated by today's standards, sure, but remember that AngularJS was a decade ago, back when jQuery was still king and anything like architectural rigor on the frontend had yet to be imagined. Especially with a team made up mostly of folks with less JS experience, you could better susta…
Yes, I understood that.
But at the time of Angular's release, ExtJS was already 3 years old.
Re: Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
#60I've used Lottie animations in the past for custom animations of UI elements. Was pretty straightforward and the results looked good. Lots of people are complaining about how heavy it can be, but small UI animations and the lightweight player leave a fairly small footprint.
I wrote up a starter blog on using Lottie for UI in React here: https://labs.thisdot.co/blog/using-lottie-animations-for-ui-...
If you don't want to make your own animations, you can download a ton of free ones to use here: https://lottiefiles.com/