react-native-skottie

Features

Skottie is a high performance library for running Lottie animations in Skia.

• 📄 Supports Lottie files (JSON) and DotLottie files (.lottie)
• 📈 Uses Skia's GPU-acceleration
• 📉 Lower CPU usage
• 🏃 Higher frame rates
• 🔗 Based on @shopify/react-native-skia

Benchmark

We benchmarked react-native-skottie against lottie-react-native on a low-end Android device running a complex animation and saw a +63% improvement in frame rates.

Installation

[!IMPORTANT] react-native-skottie depends on @shopify/react-native-skia, so make sure you install it first! (minimum required version: >= 1.x.x)

yarn add react-native-skottie

Usage

import { Skottie } from 'react-native-skottie';
// DotLottie files are supported as well!
import LottieAnimationFile from './animation.json';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <Skottie
      style={styles.flex1}
      source={LottieAnimationFile}
      autoPlay={true}
    />
  );
}

Advanced usage

Imperative ref API

import { Skottie } from 'react-native-skottie';
import { Button } from 'react-native';

export default function App() {
  const skottieRef = useRef<SkottieViewRef>(null);

  return (
    <View>
      <Skottie
        ref={skottieRef}
        style={styles.flex1}
        source={LottieAnimationFile}
      />

      <Button
        title="Play"
        onPress={() => skottieRef.current?.play()}
      />
      <Button
        title="Pause"
        onPress={() => skottieRef.current?.pause()}
      />
      <Button
        title="Reset"
        onPress={() => skottieRef.current?.reset()}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

Controlled by props

import { Skottie } from 'react-native-skottie';
import { Button } from 'react-native';

export default function App() {
  const [isPlaying, setIsPlaying] = useState(false);

  return (
    <View>
      <Skottie
        autoPlay={isPlaying}
        style={styles.flex1}
        source={LottieAnimationFile}
      />

      <Button
        title="Play"
        onPress={() => setIsPlaying(true)}
      />
      <Button
        title="Pause"
        onPress={() => setIsPlaying(false)}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

Controlled by reanimated

Note: React Native Animated API is not supported yet.

import { Skottie, SkottieAPI } from 'react-native-skottie';
import { useSharedValue, withTiming, Easing } from 'react-native-reanimated';

export default function App() {
  // A progress value from 0 to 1
  const progress = useSharedValue(0);

  // We need to run the animation on our own, therefor, we need to know the
  // animation's duration. We can either look that up from the lottie file,
  // or we can create the SkSkottie instance ourselves and get the duration:
  const skottieAnimation = useMemo(() => SkottieAPI.createFrom(lottieFile), []);
  const duration = skottieAnimation.duration;

  // Run the animation:
  useEffect(() => {
    // Will play the animation once …
    progress.value = withTiming(1, {
      duration: duration,
      easing: Easing.linear,
    });
    // … if you want to loop you could use withRepeat
  }, [duration]);

  return (
    <Skottie
      autoPlay={true}
      style={styles.flex1}
      source={LottieAnimationFile}
      // Pass the shared value to Skottie to drive the animation:
      progress={progress}
    />
  );
}

API

react-native-skottie can be used as drop-in replacement for lottie-react-native, as it tries to support the same props. Note, not all props are supported yet. If you are missing a prop for your use-case please open an issue (and at best also a PR 🤝):

Props

Prop name	Type	Default	Description
source	number | string | JSONObject | SkSkottie	-	The source of the animation. Can be a JSON file or a DotLottie file. Playing from web URLs is not supported yet. You can also pass a SkSkottie instance on your own, see API.
autoPlay	boolean	false	If true, the animation will start playing as soon as it is ready.
loop	boolean	true	If true, the animation will loop.
progress	SharedValue<number>	-	A reanimated shared value from 0 to 1 that controls the progress of the animation. Note: if this is used neither the prop or imperative API will work, but you are responsible for controlling the animation state.
speed	number	1	A value that controls the speed of the animation.
style	ViewStyle	-	The style of the animation.
resizeMode	ResizeMode (cover, contain, fill)	cover	The resize mode of the animation.

Ref

react-native-skottie provides a ref API that allows you to control the animation imperatively. The ref is of type SkottieViewRef and provides the following methods:

Method name	Description
play	Plays the animation.
pause	Pauses the animation.
reset	Resets the animation to the beginning.

SkottieAPI

react-native-skottie provides a SkottieAPI that allows you to create Skottie instances on your own. This is useful if you want to control the animation with reanimated or if you want to know the duration of the animation before it is played. The API is of type SkottieAPI and provides the following methods:

Method name	Description
SkottieAPI.createFrom	Creates a Skottie instance from a source (string, json, file import)

Community Discord

Join the Margelo Community Discord to chat about react-native-skottie or other Margelo libraries.

Adopting at scale

This library is provided as is.

If you stumble upon bugs or need help implementing react-native-skottie, reach out to us at https://margelo.io!

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT

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