ROrob·Mar 5, 2026Submission
An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations
3 points · Open discussionairbnb
lottie-ios
Swift2017–2026
airbnb / lottie-ios
lottie-ios
An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations
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An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourcesLottie from Airbnb – iOS library to render After Effects vector animations
1 points · Open discussionSwift: Automatic Memory Management and Performance Issues
3 points · Open discussion- Open Sourcing an animation library for After Effects (https://airbnb.design/lottie/)
- Making a plugin for exporting After Effects to JSON (https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-web)
- Porting their open sourced animation library for iOS (https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-ios)
- Porting their open sourced animation library to a mobile framework that another company created that doesn't really have anything to do with its core business. (https://github.com/react-native-community/lottie-react-nativ...)
- Writing a 5 part blog post on why they're moving away from that technology
Look I love Lottie, but it's hilarious to me how far outside of "Facilitating short term rentals" it is. Facebook has the same thread to pull with React. I get that they're "trying to contribute to the ecosystem" but it's like an extension of the PhD for these coders.
In Airbnb Is Moving Off of React Native (2018)iOS library to render After Effects vector animations
2 points · Open discussion