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Rive or Lottie?
Rive Vs Lottie which animation framework is the one your product needs?
With more and more React components being created each day, it can be a challenge to know which one is right for your project.
Recently I’ve been experimenting with Lottie and Rive, two popular React animation libraries, and I want to introduce my findings on how they compare against each other.
If you are having a difficult time deciding if Lottie or Rive is the best animation tool for Android apps, you are not alone. Both of these tools have been very well received by the developer community and offer many great features that can help get your app noticed.
Lottie is a mobile framework for vector animations backed by JSON. It uses declarative bindings to chain style, structure, and animations — with support for referencing assets as binary values (or via Text Resources). Unlike most animation libraries, Lottie is not a timeline-based system: it favors composition over progressive enhancement and aims to deliver pixel-perfect results across platforms and devices.
Rive, on the other hand, is built from the ground up to make transitions and animations easy to build. Rive’s runtimes can take things a step further by allowing the designer/developer combo to take full control of the experience. With a…
