Lottie Animation Workflow Part 2

Once the project is created, we can open the app source in an editor and look for App.js, which should contain the following code:

Now that Lottie is imported we can put the animation into the project. Take the animation we created in part 1 and place it in the assets folder in the file structure:

Finally, all we need to do to display the animation is configure it into the Lottie component we imported above.

If you run the code in the iOS simulator (in Expo XDE, choose device > ‘Open on iOS Simulator’) you will see that the animation plays but isn’t positioned correctly and it stops after it plays the full animation one time.

To fix this, let’s give it some styles and add the loop property in the code:

Now you can see we have a nice centered animation that loops:

That is a basic implementation of importing a Lottie animation and displaying it in a React Native Expo app, but Lottie can do a lot more and just as a quick example, let’s add a toggle to the loop prop so we can start/stop the animation on demand:

So, there you have it. We have created an animation from scratch and rendered it in a mobile app. Next time we’ll go over some more advanced features that Lottie offers. If there is anything specific you’d like to see, add a comment below.

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