Animations aren’t just add-ons in apps❗️➡️ Whether it’s a button press, avatar, or a smooth transition, integrating high-performing animations requires selecting the right tech, libraries, and platforms.
Our top choices? ➡️ FlutterFlow in combination with the animation library LottieFiles and design tool Rive.
With these tools, we can create a wide range of animations, from simple to complex, ensuring both visual appeal and high performance.
Once designed, the animations can be seamlessly imported into FlutterFlow and easily integrated into the app.
We select the best option based on the specific needs of each project.
➡️ We’d like to showcase some animations we’ve developed using FlutterFlow, Rive, and Lottie. We hope this demonstration highlights the potential of these platforms for your projects.
WHAT DO ANIMATIONS DO? 🤔
Simply put, animations enhance an app's visual appeal, user experience, and interactivity. With smooth transitions, animated icons, and engaging visuals, animations help guide users through the app naturally and intuitively. ✅
➡️ FlutterFlow
We use it mainly for page transition animations that enhance the flow between app screens. Plus, FlutterFlow offers a range of functionalities that allow for the implementation of simpler animations, and its UI Builder simplifies the process by allowing you to select, customize, and preview animations directly within the platform.
For more complex animations we use Lottie and Rive – allowing us to create a wide range of animation styles, ensuring both visual richness and optimized performance. Once the animations are designed, the assets can be quickly imported into FlutterFlow and integrated into the app.
➡️ LottieFiles
With its extensive library of pre-built animations, Lottie offers an efficient and easy-to-use integration of lightweight animations, enabling us to quickly import and add them without affecting app performance.
We use it for simpler and quicker animations like micro-interactions (e.g., button taps, icons, loading animations).
However, keep in mind that it's not ideal for animations that require real-time interaction or need to respond dynamically to user input.
➡️ Rive
When animations need to respond to user input or change dynamically, Rive is the ideal solution for designing rich, real-time animations that seamlessly adapt to user actions.
Rive's versatile platform allows for the creation of dynamic animations, from interactive buttons and live UI elements to complex avatars.
With Rive's web-based editor, we can quickly design animations, import them into FlutterFlow, and integrate them into your app as assets.
A key advantage of Rive is its collaborative environment, allowing our designers and developers to work together in real-time. This feature provides full control over the animation workflow, enabling high levels of customization and instant updates, ensuring efficient and streamlined project development.
In our educational app, Rive played a key role in enhancing interactivity by incorporating dynamic animations, including animated avatars, to make the learning process more engaging and interactive. This approach transformed what could have been a passive activity into an immersive and enjoyable experience. The animations not only improved the user experience but also made the app more effective in delivering educational content.
ANIMATIONS FOR THE BEST UX
Too often, animations are added at the end, like an extra touch, but this approach can lead to inconsistent UX, increased development time, performance issues, and more.
Therefore, we plan animations right from the beginning, during the wireframing and design phases.
To maximize the effectiveness of animations, they must be properly incorporated, optimized for performance across different platforms, and customized to match the UI design.
It's also important that they serve a functional purpose and feel natural within the app.
When done right, animations not only enhance visual appeal but also improve responsiveness, creating a more engaging and seamless user experience. 😀🙌
➡️ ❓✅ Got questions or want to know more about how we integrate animations? Reach out anytime! 😀 We’re happy to help and provide more details.