SkeletonView
☠️ An elegant way to show users that something is happening and also prepare them to which contents they are awaiting (by Juanpe)
Lottie
An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations (by airbnb)
| SkeletonView | Lottie | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 12 | |
| 12,799 | 26,333 | |
| 0.2% | 0.3% | |
| 4.2 | 6.8 | |
| 11 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Swift | Swift | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
SkeletonView
Posts with mentions or reviews of SkeletonView.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.
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How do I create this pre-loader effect using UIKit that is so prevalent in apps?
Take a look at SkeletonView
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How to I implement `.redacted(reason: .placeholder)` in UIKit?
There’s no UIKit equivalent for this. You could set the label’s font to one of those redacted fonts used for prototyping (Google has one for example), or use one of those skeleton view libraries on GitHub.
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Cracking the iOS Interview
SkeletonView - Fancy loading views
Lottie
Posts with mentions or reviews of Lottie.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-10.
- Lottie from Airbnb – iOS library to render After Effects vector animations
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Are Animated JSON and Lotties suitable in functional web development?
Lottie still has a lot of support (backed by Airbnb) and just got a big performance upgrade on iOS. However, there are competitors cropping up (like Rive) with the aim to be more lightweight and not tied to After Effects.
- "progress indicator" animation
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Cracking the iOS Interview
Lottie - After Effects vector animations
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Binding Lottie (or any other Swift framework with UI) in MAUI
When I wrote my app which needed Lottie animations, I found LottieXamarin library, but that only works with Xamarin.Forms not with MAUI. I tried to update it, however I've run into multiple issues and at the same time I've realised only older Lottie versions can be binded, because from March of 2019, Lottie is a Swift library, which means it can't be binded easily.
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Character animations like Duolingo in swiftui
It's probably made with Adobe AE or similar, and exported in Lottie format (SVG-data like + assets) to be loaded and rendered with the Lottie library for iOS (https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-ios) which I presume already comes with SwiftUI-compatible API.
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A challenger to the throne of vector graphics. SVG is dead, long live TinyVG!
The HN thread also mentions Lottie from AirBnB and IconVG from Not-an-official-Google-product.
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18 amazing 🤩 GitHub repositories that will help you 🪄 make a beautiful project
Lottie for Web, Android, iOS, React Native, and Windows
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I built this Lottie animation editor to edit Lottie animations without After Effects! If like me, you use Lottie animations as part of your iOS app UI but struggle with After Effects or implementation issues, would like to know what you think. Added a video in comments too :)
I think there might be one but not sure how up to date it is: https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-ios/tree/lottie/objectiveC
- Burger king logo animated with UIKit
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SkeletonView and Lottie you can also consider the following projects:
AsyncDisplayKit - Smooth asynchronous user interfaces for iOS apps.
MotionBlur - MotionBlur allows you to add motion blur effect to iOS animations.
EasyAnimation - A Swift library to take the power of UIView.animateWithDuration(_:, animations:...) to a whole new level - layers, springs, chain-able animations and mixing view and layer animations together!
Pastel - 🎨 Gradient animation effect like Instagram
ViewAnimator - ViewAnimator brings your UI to life with just one line
Macaw - Powerful and easy-to-use vector graphics Swift library with SVG support