AndroidViewAnimations vs shimmer-android

AndroidViewAnimations

Cute view animation collection. (by daimajia)

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shimmer-android

An easy, flexible way to add a shimmering effect to any view in an Android app. (by facebookarchive)

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AndroidViewAnimations		shimmer-android
	Project
2	Mentions	2
12,375	Stars	5,235
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Java	Language	Java
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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AndroidViewAnimations

Posts with mentions or reviews of AndroidViewAnimations. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-15.

How can I implement this mask animation on Android?
3 projects | /r/androiddev | 15 Aug 2022

Managed to implement thanks to this library suggested by u/ Heromimox

shimmer-android

Posts with mentions or reviews of shimmer-android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-10.

Can't figure out how WhatsApp loads placeholder Views in RecylcerView and then edit them. How do you think is it done?
1 project | /r/androiddev | 7 Jun 2023
Shimmer Effect on Android
2 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AndroidViewAnimations and shimmer-android you can also consider the following projects:

ListViewAnimations

Lottie for Android, iOS, and React Native - Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS, Web, and React Native

android-page-curl - Page Curl for Android

Android Image Popup - Simple android image popup Library

Material-Animations - Android Transition animations explanation with examples.

FragmentAnimations - 3D animation examples for support-v4 Fragment transition.

ShimmerLayout - DEPRECATED - Memory efficient shimmering effect for Android applications by Supercharge.

transitions-everywhere - Set of extra Transitions on top of Jetpack Transitions Library

Dachshund Tab Layout - Extended Android Tab Layout with animated indicators that have continuous feedback.

ChatKit for Android - Android library. Flexible components for chat UI implementation with flexible possibilities for styling, customizing and data management. Made by Stfalcon