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airbnb/lottie-android

This is a cross-platform animation rendering library that parses and plays Lottie animations. It provides a core Android rendering engine with support for dynamic property updates, network fetching, and 3D transforms. The system also includes a dedicated Jetpack Compose integration for modern UI development, along with comprehensive tooling for performance benchmarking and issue reproduction.

50.9

Adequate · 1 August 2026

31k

lines of production code

Java

with Kotlin

1

bus factor · 168 authors in all

2

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How it got here

2016–2017 · Lottie architecture modernization

This period focused on a comprehensive refactoring of the Lottie library's internal architecture, introducing a modular content and animation engine to support 3D transforms, dynamic properties, and improved text rendering. The team also modernized the project's build infrastructure, migrating to Gradle Version Catalogues and updating the Android template scaffolding.

18 changes

2018–2020 · Compose integration and architecture modernization

This period focused on modernizing the Lottie library by introducing a modular parser architecture and a comprehensive Jetpack Compose integration for rendering and controlling animations. The work also included building a robust sample application to demonstrate these new capabilities, alongside internal improvements like network fetching and dependency injection.

13 changes

2021–2024 · Compose integration and performance tooling

This period focused on introducing full Jetpack Compose support for Lottie, including new APIs, sample implementations, and comprehensive test coverage. It also established infrastructure for measuring and optimizing startup and rendering performance through baseline profiles and benchmarks.

7 changes

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 1 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
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