Lottie
An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations (by airbnb)
Carthage
A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa (by Carthage)
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| Lottie | Carthage | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 5 | |
| 24,976 | 14,901 | |
| 0.7% | 0.1% | |
| 8.7 | 5.9 | |
| 3 days ago | 27 days ago | |
| Swift | Swift | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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.
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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
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Loading Screen Animation Help
If you can use After effects or some plugin to translate the PNG sequence to a Lottie JSON file, you can setup https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-ios in your project and should be pretty straight forward from there. If not, maybe translate it to a GIF file. Last option, if the animation is simple it can be simple to recreate it using UIBezierPaths.
Carthage
Posts with mentions or reviews of Carthage.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-12.
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Binding Lottie (or any other Swift framework with UI) in MAUI
On iOS side to keep it clean, I've used Carthage to get Lottie. The wrapping is pretty much the same, the goal is to make sure we can set the animation and get the view.
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Awesome macOS Libraries List
Carthage - A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa. Language: Swift.
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MagazineLayout
To install MagazineLayout using Carthage, add github "airbnb/MagazineLayout" to your Cartfile, then follow the integration tutorial here.
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Building a restaurant iOS App
To add Alamofire, we'll be using Swift Package Manager. Xcode comes with built-in support for it and we'll not have to use external package managers like Cocoapods or Carthage. Click on File → Add Packages...
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How to migrate your project with Carthage to Xcode 12
Carthage / Building platform-independent XCFrameworks (Xcode 12 and above)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Lottie and Carthage you can also consider the following projects:
MotionBlur - MotionBlur allows you to add motion blur effect to iOS animations.
swift-package-manager - The Package Manager for the Swift Programming Language
KRProgressHUD - A beautiful and easy-to-use progress HUD for your iOS.
Xcode Maven - Maven for iOS Builds
ViewAnimator - ViewAnimator brings your UI to life with just one line
CocoaPods
SkeletonView - ☠️ An elegant way to show users that something is happening and also prepare them to which contents they are awaiting
Accio - A dependency manager driven by SwiftPM that works for iOS/tvOS/watchOS/macOS projects.
Gemini - Gemini is rich scroll based animation framework for iOS, written in Swift.
Alcatraz
SpriteKitEasingSwift - Better Easing for SpriteKit in Swift
Rome - Carthage cache for S3, Minio, Ceph, Google Storage, Artifactory and many others