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Ask HN: Good, lightweight 2D animation engines for Android/iOS

What are our options if we want to include interactive animations in our app and want them to be as lightweight as possible. Rive seems like one option. What are other ones? We'd want something that allows for skeletal animation, but a physics engine is not essential (Unity and Blender seem like overkill.) Thank you!
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Re:Ask HN: Good, lightweight 2D animation engines for Androi... by 8toast on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:02AM (#30877672)
lottie is probably the best supported lightweight animation option with interactivity:

https://airbnb.io/lottie/

https://lottiefiles.com/interactivity

Re:Ask HN: Good, lightweight 2D animation engines for Androi... by ChaitanyaSai on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @04:47AM (#30929887)
Thanks! This actually does help. We had encountered Lottie earlier in our search, but didn't explore it enough. The size compression it achieves is in itself a big advantage.