animatedjs/animated
Animated
Animated is a declarative framework designed for creating high-performance, cross-platform interface movements. It provides a system for defining complex UI transitions through property interpolation, value mapping, and physics-based motion, allowing developers to orchestrate fluid visual effects without manual frame updates.
The library distinguishes itself by offloading animation instructions to the native UI thread, ensuring consistent performance across mobile and web environments. It supports sophisticated motion design by linking multiple animation variables together, enabling coordinated trailing effects and multi-property transitions that respond directly to user gestures.
The framework includes a comprehensive set of tools for managing dependency graphs and platform-specific logic. By utilizing an abstracted adapter pattern, it ensures that physics-based simulations and style property applications remain consistent across diverse target platforms.
Features
- React Animation Workflows - A declarative framework for creating smooth, physics-based animations and gesture-driven transitions across mobile and web user interfaces.
- Interactive Gesture-Driven Animations - Connects touch input events directly to animation values for interactive, responsive interface transitions.
- Native Animation Drivers - Offloads animation instructions to the native UI thread via a bridge to ensure high-performance execution.
- Interpolation Mappings - The animation framework transforms a single input variable into multiple output ranges to drive different visual properties simultaneously from one state for complex coordinated effects.
- Animated Gesture Event Mappings - Maps input event streams directly to animation controllers to create interactive, gesture-responsive transitions.
- Multi-Value Interpolators - Uses mathematical transformation functions to map input ranges to output values for driving multiple visual properties.
- Physics-Based Animations - Simulates real-world forces like springs and friction to create natural, responsive movement patterns.
- Animation Frameworks - Links multiple animation variables together to create coordinated trailing effects and complex multi-property movements.
- Animation Orchestrators - Orchestrates complex, multi-property transitions and coordinated effects by linking multiple animated values.
- Physical Motion Simulators - Calculates velocity and position using numerical integration to mimic real-world physical forces.
- Cross-Platform Motion Systems - Ensures consistent visual effects and component animations across web, iOS, and Android environments.
- Declarative Animation Frameworks - Defines complex interface movements through value mapping and timing functions instead of manual frame updates.
- Declarative Animations - Manages dependencies between animated values using a directed acyclic graph for efficient update propagation.
- Gesture Interaction Frameworks - Maps touch input directly to interface properties to build responsive elements that follow user movement.
- Cross-Platform Animation Players - Provides a system for interpolating component properties and chaining values to achieve high-performance visual effects.
- Style Property Animators - Interpolates component style properties like position, scale, and opacity using declarative timing functions.
