Lottie: Delayed Loop

Lottie is a very nice library which enables vector animations that are more complex than can be done using Animated Vector Drawables. The main use-case for Lottie is that it takes animations that are generated using Adobe After Effects (exported using the Bodymovin plugin). After Effects is a tool aimed at designers rather than developers,…

AnimatedIcons: Share

There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in cases where…

AnimatedIcons: Play / Pause Circle

There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in cases where…

Animated Icons: Info

There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in cases where…

Animated Icons: Burger Menu

There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in cases where…

Motion Vectors

Regular readers of Styling Android will not be surprised to hear that I rather like animations. A couple of really useful tools for creating nice animations are AnimatedVectorDrawable (AVD), and MotionLayout and it should come as no surprise that I am a big fan of both. But using them together is not easy. In this…

AnimatedIcons: Arrow * Circle

There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in…

AnimatedIcons: Max / Min

There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in…

AnimatedIcons: Loading V3

There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in…

BottomNavigationView: Animating Icons

There is an occasional series on Styling Android which covers techniques for creating Animated Icons as AnimatedVectorDrawable and AnimatedStateListDrawable. These are quite easy to use when using them inside a standard ImageView, but there can be other scenarios where they can be a little trickier to get working, and one of those is in the…