{"id":46,"date":"2021-04-16T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T13:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhwbaldwin.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2024-11-13T23:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T23:00:43","slug":"issues-getting-started-with-lottie-in-react-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhwbaldwin.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/16\/issues-getting-started-with-lottie-in-react-native\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues Getting Started with Lottie in React Native"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issues Getting Started with Lottie in React Native<\/h2>\t\t\n\t\t

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The promise of Lottie<\/a> is almost too good to be true: beautiful animations requiring 1\/6th the normal processing oomph. What’s not to love?<\/p>\n

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I’d suggested using Lottie<\/a> in a project at work, but we ended up resorting to plain old gifs instead because the iOS dev was ______. Anywho, not gonna speculate about what exactly the iOS dev was thinking.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to try Lottie out myself so I set to work following the standard instructions in Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The first time I encountered a difficult issue: I couldn’t get the animation to load at all. No error, no disruption to surrounding text or images. No nada. It just wasn’t showing up.<\/p>\n

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It was frustrating, but I was intrigued. But I also had a deadline, so I got distracted and put Lottie aside for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

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Finally ready to try again, I realized the issue when I’d remembered another similar error with displaying images from external sources… the height and width must be defined. For giggles I added inline styles of height and width at 150 and voil\u00e1! <\/p>\n

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Issues Getting Started with Lottie in React Native The promise of Lottie is almost too good to be true: beautiful animations requiring 1\/6th the normal processing oomph. What’s not to love? I’d suggested using Lottie in a project at work, but we ended up resorting to plain old gifs instead because the iOS dev was…
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