react-native-animatable

Easy to use declarative transitions and a standard set of animations for React Native

Installation

$ npm install react-native-animatable --save

Usage

To animate things you must use the createAnimatableComponent composer similar to the Animated.createAnimatedComponent. The common components View, Text and Image are precomposed and exposed under the Animatable namespace. If you have your own component that you wish to animate, simply wrap it with a Animatable.View or compose it with:

import * as Animatable from 'react-native-animatable';
MyCustomComponent = Animatable.createAnimatableComponent(MyCustomComponent);

Declarative Usage

Predefined Animations

<Animatable.Text animation="zoomInUp">Zoom me up, Scotty</Animatable.Text>

Looping

To make looping animations simply set the iterationCount to infinite. Most animations except the attention seekers work best when setting direction to alternate.

<Animatable.Text animation="slideInDown" iterationCount={5} direction="alternate">Up and down you go</Animatable.Text>
<Animatable.Text animation="pulse" easing="ease-out" iterationCount="infinite" style={{ textAlign: 'center' }}>❤️</Animatable.Text>

Generic transitions

You can create your own simple transitions of a style property of your own choosing. The following example will increase the font size by 5 for every tap – all animated, all declarative! If you don't supply a duration property, a spring animation will be used.

Note: If you are using colors, please use rgba() syntax.

Note: Transitions require StyleSheet.flatten available in React Native 0.15 or later. If you are running on anything lower, please polyfill as described under imperative usage.

<TouchableOpacity onPress={() => this.setState({fontSize: (this.state.fontSize || 10) + 5 })}>
  <Animatable.Text transition="fontSize" style={{fontSize: this.state.fontSize || 10}}>Size me up, Scotty</Animatable.Text>
</TouchableOpacity>

Properties

Note: Other properties will be passed down to underlying component.

Prop	Description	Default
`animation`	Name of the animation, see below for available animations.	None
`duration`	For how long the animation will run (milliseconds).	`1000`
`delay`	Optionally delay animation (milliseconds).	`0`
`direction`	Direction of animation, especially useful for repeating animations. Valid values: `normal`, `reverse`, `alternate`, `alternate-reverse`.	`normal`
`easing`	Timing function for the animation. Valid values: `linear`, `ease`, `ease-in`, `ease-out`, `ease-in-out`.	`ease-in-out`
`iterationCount`	How many times to run the animation, use `infinite` for looped animations.	`1`
`transition`	What `style` property to transition, for example `opacity`, `rotate` or `fontSize`. Use array for multiple properties.	None
`onAnimationBegin`	A function that is called when the animation has been started.	None
`onAnimationEnd`	A function that is called when the animation has been completed successfully or cancelled. Function is called with an `endState` argument, refer to `endState.finished` to see if the animation completed or not.	None
`animationValue`	default animationValue, Maybe we need a smaller motion animation. use it	None

Imperative Usage

Predefined Animations

All animations are exposed as functions on Animatable elements, they take an optional duration argument. They return a promise that is resolved when animation completes successfully or is cancelled.

import * as Animatable from 'react-native-animatable';

class ExampleView extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={() => this.refs.view.bounce(800).then((endState) => console.log(endState.finished ? 'bounce finished' : 'bounce cancelled');}>
        <Animatable.View ref="view">
          <Text>Bounce me!</Text>
        </Animatable.View>
      </TouchableWithoutFeedback>
    );
  }
}

To stop any ongoing animations, just invoke stopAnimation() on that element.

Generic transitions

`transition(fromValues, toValues[[, duration], easing])`

Will transition between given styles. If no duration or easing is passed a spring animation will be used.

`transitionTo(toValues[[, duration], easing])`

This function will try to determine the current styles and pass it along to transition() as fromValues.

import * as Animatable from 'react-native-animatable';

class ExampleView extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={() => this.refs.text.transitionTo({opacity: 0.2});}>
        <Animatable.Text ref="text">Fade me!</Animatable.Text>
      </TouchableWithoutFeedback>
    );
  }
}