React Native Anime

(Inspired by Cheetah for Swift: https://github.com/suguru/Cheetah)

Anime is an animation utility for React Native. It's built on top of the Animated module, and provides a much simpler API for handling animations.

The library is still in early development. I also need to add a proper API documentation. Open issues if you find any bugs, and contributions are also welcomed!

Features

• Animations with durations and delays
• Parallel/Serial executions
• Easings
• Springs

Installation

$ npm i react-native-anime

OR

$ yarn add react-native-anime

Code Example

1. Import Anime

import Anime from 'react-native-anime';

1. Wrap your view with Anime component and save its reference

render () {
    return (
        <Anime.View ref={ ref => this.box = ref }>
            <View style={ styles.box }/>
        </Anime.View>
    )
}

1. Use the reference to animate your component

onClick() {
    this.box.moveX(100, { duration: 1500 }).start();
}
 
// You can also stop an animation with a .stop() method, and reset the component's styling with .reset()
stopAndReset() {
    this.box.stop();
    this.box.reset();
}

Available methods

Translate:

translateX
translateY
moveX // Relative to last X translation
moveY // Relative to last Y translation

Skew:

skewX
skewY

Prespective:

perspective

Scale:

scale

Rotate:

rotateZ OR rotate
rotateX
rotateY

Borders:

borderRadius
borderWidth
borderColor

Text:

fontSize
color

Layout:

height
width
opacity
backgroundColor
zIndex

Parallel execution

Anime groups animation properties and executes them at once.

    this.box
        .moveX(50)
        .moveY(50)
        .rotate(180)
        .start()

Sequence execution

wait will wait until all animations placed before it completed. It can also receive milliseconds to wait to start next animation

    this.box
        // first animation
        .moveX(50)
        .scale(1.5)
        // wait 1s before starting second animation
        .wait(1000)
        // second animation
        .moveX(-50)
        .scale(0.5)
        .start()

Duration, delay, easing

Just like with Animated, you can specify durations, delays and easings for your animations

    import { Easing } from 'react-native';
 
    animate() {
        this.box
            .skewX(50, { duration: 2000, easing: Easing.bounce })
            .rotateY(-100, { delay: 2000 })
            .start();
    }

Spring

You can also use Animated's spring animations, together with all its options (http://browniefed.com/react-native-animation-book/api/SPRING.html)

    this.box
        .height(100, { spring: { friction: 1, velocity: 100 } })
        .borderRadius(100)
        .start()
 
    // or simply use `spring: true` for default spring behaviour
    this.box
        .moveX(50, { spring: true })
        .start()

Also supports Image, Text and ScrollView

Like with Animated module, you can also animate Text, Image and ScrollView components

    render() {
        return (
            <Anime.Image ref={ ref => this.image = ref }
                         source={{ require('pikachu.gif') }} />
        )
    }
 
    animate() {
        this.image
            .skewX(5, { spring: true })
            .skewY(5, { spring: true })
            .wait()
            .rotate(360*20, { duration: 2000 })
            .start()
    }

Parallel animation of numerous components

    render() {
        return (
            <View>
            	<Anime.View ref={ ref => this.box = ref }
            		    style={{ width: 50, height: 50, backgroundColor: 'blue' }}/>
 
            	<Anime.Text ref={ ref => this.text = ref }
            		    style={{ color: 'blue', fontSize: 12 }}>
            		Very easy
            	</Anime.Text>
            </View>
        )
    }
 
    animateComponents() {
        const box = this.box.rotate(90);
        const text = this.text.color('red');
 
        const parallel = new Anime.Parallel([box, text]);
 
        // Start parallel animation for both components, and reset them both when it ends
        parallel.start(() => parallel.reset())
    }