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UI Animations with Lottie and After Effects

You're reading from   UI Animations with Lottie and After Effects Create, render, and ship stunning animations natively on mobile with React Native

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243801
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Emilio Rodriguez Martinez Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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Mireia Alegre Ruiz Mireia Alegre Ruiz
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 - Building a Foundation With After Effects and LottieFiles
2. Chapter 1: Get Started With Lottie FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating the Illusion: Get Rolling With the Basic Principles of 2D Classic Animation 4. Chapter 3: Learning the Tools: Getting Familiar With After Effects 5. Part 2 - Cracking Lottie Animations
6. Chapter 4: Move It! Animating Our First Lottie With After Effects 7. Chapter 5: Share It With the World: Working With LottieFiles 8. Chapter 6: Don’t Stop! Exploring Plugins and Resources That Will Keep You Going 9. Part 3 - Adding Your Lottie Animations Into Mobile Apps
10. Chapter 7: An Introduction to lottie-react-native 11. Chapter 8: Installing lottie-react-native 12. Chapter 9: Let’s Do Some Magic: Integrating Your First Lottie Animation 13. Chapter 10: How To Nail It: Controlling Your Animation 14. Chapter 11: Any Questions? lottie-react-native FAQs 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Basic installation

Installing lottie-react-native follows a similar process as any other npm library, taking into account that it's a library that depends on native libraries written in Swift and Java. Taking this into account, developers can always read about the installation process in the GitHub repository URL: https://github.com/lottie-react-native/lottie-react-native.

When installing lottie-react-native, developers should know that, because of the way it is built, the iOS native library for Lottie should also be installed to enable lottie-react-native to render Lottie animations in iOS apps.

Let's take a look at the steps we need to follow in order to complete a successful installation.

Using npm

Follow these steps to install the lottie-react-native library using npm:

  1. Navigate to our terminal in the React Native project root folder. Once we are there, we should run the following command:
    npm i --save lottie-react-native

This command will follow...

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