Plays compressed monochrome animations created by the MicroAnimationConverter on TFT/OLED displays.
Originally added to be able to play multiple animated Icons from https://animator.wokwi.com/ on small devices like the Arduino Micro. Those animations can consume quite some program memory. They are however very compressible with simple Run Length Encoding in combination with Delta Compression.
As a bonus this library provides an easy API to deal with animations in different use cases.
Run Length Encoding is very simple and fast to decompres, and it doesn't require RAM for lookup tables or extra buffers. Often, especially when the animation is very well compressible, the decompression is faster than drawing the uncompressed bitmap because fewer operations need to be sent to the display, making use of drawFastHLine and skipping the parts that don't change from frame to frame. In some cases it might be somewhat slower though.
The MicroAnimationConverter will try to find the best compression method for each frame. In case it doesn't succeed in compressing a frame, it will just store the uncompressed bitmap, resulting in only marginal overhead in terms of memory and performance.
Please see the examples for more information. All examples can be tested with the MicroAnimationExample project on the Wokwi simulator.
Currently only tested with the SSD1306 and SSD1331. Feature/pull requests for other displays are welcome.