Can the <Skottie /> component from react-native-skia replace the lottie-react-native package entirely?

[TowhidKashem]

Hi,

I am currently using both react-native-skia and lottie-react-native libs in the same project but for different things. I noticed recently skia made a Skottie component available but I am not sure if we can use this to render lottie animations anywhere in our apps or if we should only use it if the lottie animation interfaces with skia in some other way?

For example all my lottie animations are just one off animations that should run on a loop, I don't need to control it programmatically or anything. Can I just use Skottie for this? And is it more or less performant that embedding them with lottie-react-native?

[wcandillon]

I can safely say that Skottie might be the right call for you. Now Skottie also provides features for custom animations which I believe are not available in lottie-react-native: https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/docs/skottie/#dynamic-animation-properties

[TowhidKashem]

cool thank you, I'll give it a shot then. It will be nice to drop the extra lib!