How to use Skia Skottie?

[kartik1225]

I have seen PR 945 that includes skottie build.
But I cannot find how to implement Lottie/Skottie animation with rn-skia.
Can anyone nudge me in the right direction?

[wcandillon]

@hannojg is the maintainer of the react-native-skia-skottie module :)

[hannojg]

Hey, skottie isn't released yet. Actually I wanted to create a public module in the next coming days! Will keep you updated here 😊

[hannojg]

Note: Skottie will be a separate module from Skia and use the skia package.

[wcandillon]

Game changer confirmed

[kartik1225]

@hannojg I am very interested in Skottie lib so please keep me updated whenever you publish the initial update I will be one of your first alpha tester 😁

[kartik1225]

@hannojg When are you planning to release the skottie-skia package? If you can give me a rough estimation That would be great!
And also Happy new year 🎉😀

[kartik1225]

Thank you for the update @wcandillon & @hannojg
Eagerly waiting for Skottie 🙌🏻

[kartik1225]

@hannojg Any updates for react-native-skia-skottie?
Eagerly waiting for this! If you can share the repo then that would be awesome! I would like to contribute.

[hannojg]

I know it has been a long time, but I am now actively working on this. I will try to have a alpha release for y'all to test by the end of this week, or next week.

[kartik1225]

Glad to hear from you! Super exited 🙌🏻.

[hannojg]

yeah, I got it working for iOS and android, currently just polishing the API / readme. Will release in the next days 😊

[hungtooc]

why don't we use https://github.com/lottie-react-native/lottie-react-native instead

[hannojg]

You can absolutely use lottie-react-native and its the golden standard right now for running Lottie animations in react native!
However, for more complex animations, or when running multiple animations, or when running on low end devices I observed many performance bottlenecks which we are trying to solve by using skottie (skia).

[kartik1225]

In addition to that skottie library is written in c++ on top of skia thus you can have more complex animations and it also supports most of the features that lottie format has to offer in the JSON data. Another advantage is in between lottie-ios and lottie-android there might be a slight difference since both have different runtimes but skottie with skia will be the same.

[hannojg]

Oh, good point! With Lottie you have this compatibility list of features for each OS: https://airbnb.io/lottie/#/supported-features
That's gone when using skia/skottie! 😊