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Overview
Lottie Android renders Adobe After Effects animations exported as Bodymovin JSON directly on Android. It lets teams ship designer-authored motion as UI assets instead of rebuilding the animation frame by frame or baking it into a video.
Features and best fit
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Key features
Render Bodymovin JSON directly on Android
Lottie reads JSON exported from After Effects through Bodymovin and displays it through components such as LottieAnimationView. Playback and looping can be controlled by the application while the animation remains a reusable UI asset.
Use Lottie assets from both Views and Compose
The README documents the standard Android artifact and links to Lottie Compose. Teams can choose an integration that matches existing View-based screens or newer Compose UI.
Sources: [2]
Best fit
Fits teams that want designer-authored motion to flow into the Android app
Loading states, onboarding, and other interface motion can be shipped from shared animation assets without engineers recreating every frame in application code.
Sources: [2]
Before adoption
Plan around Gradle, AndroidX, and device-level rendering checks
The README states that Gradle is the supported build configuration and that Lottie 2.8.0 and later require AndroidX. Validate each exported animation on representative devices because complex assets can differ in rendering cost and memory use.
Official sources
- [1]airbnb/lottie-android — GitHub repository(2026-10-06)
- [2]Lottie Android 6.7.1 — README(2026-10-06)
- [3]LottieAnimationView attributes(2026-10-06)
- [4]Lottie Android 6.7.1 release(2026-10-06)
- [5]Lottie Android Apache-2.0 license(2026-10-06)
Supplemental curator note
Lottie is useful when designer-authored motion should ship directly in Android UI. Validate representative JSON assets on target devices because complex After Effects content can vary in rendering cost and supported behavior.
Try it in 3 steps
- 1
Add Lottie Android 6.7.1
Add the reviewed stable artifact to the Gradle dependencies of an existing AndroidX project.
implementation 'com.airbnb.android:lottie:6.7.1' - 2
Place a Bodymovin JSON asset
Put a Lottie JSON file exported from After Effects with Bodymovin in the assets directory.
app/src/main/assets/animation.json - 3
Autoplay it with LottieAnimationView
Point LottieAnimationView at the asset and confirm that it renders and plays on screen.
<com.airbnb.lottie.LottieAnimationView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:layout_width="200dp" android:layout_height="200dp" app:lottie_fileName="animation.json" app:lottie_autoPlay="true" app:lottie_loop="true" />
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GitHub Topics
- animation
- android
- lottie
- airbnb
- after-effects
- Stars
- 35,737
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- Open issues
- 62
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- Java
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Repository last updated
- Feb 15, 2026
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