Java Animations

Open-source Java projects categorized as Animations

Top 23 Java Animation Projects

  1. Lottie for Android, iOS, and React Native

    Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS, Web, and React Native

    Project mention: Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-25

    Our corporate UI library uses lottie-web for its animated components like spinners, progress bars etc.

    This page:

    https://airbnb.io/lottie/#/community-showcase

    Absolutely cooks my company-issued laptop and my belief is that had it been done via CSS, it wouldn't have this effect.

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  3. Material-Animations

    Android Transition animations explanation with examples.

  4. AndroidViewAnimations

    Cute view animation collection.

  5. UltimateAndroidReference

    :rocket: Ultimate Android Reference - Your Road to Become a Better Android Developer

  6. HTextView

    Animation effects to text, not really textview

  7. AndroidImageSlider

    An amazing and convenient Android image slider.

  8. transitions-everywhere

    Set of extra Transitions on top of Jetpack Transitions Library (by andkulikov)

  9. CircleIndicator

    A lightweight indicator like in nexus 5 launcher

  10. ChatKit for Android

    Android library. Flexible components for chat UI implementation with flexible possibilities for styling, customizing and data management. Made by Stfalcon

  11. ExplosionField

    explosive dust effect for views

  12. Music Player

    From UI Proposal to Code :notes::arrow_forward:

  13. animate

    An application demoing meaningful motion on Android

  14. RecyclerViewItemAnimators

    An Android library which provides simple Item animations to RecyclerView items

  15. FabulousFilter

    Android library to animate Floating Action Button to Bottom Sheet Dialog and vice-versa

  16. ShimmerLayout

    DEPRECATED - Memory efficient shimmering effect for Android applications by Supercharge.

  17. AnimationEasingFunctions

    Android Animation Easing Functions. Let's make animation more real!

  18. CircularReveal

    Lollipop ViewAnimationUtils.createCircularReveal for everyone 4.0+

  19. ColorPickerView

    🎨 Android colorpicker for getting colors from any images by tapping on the desired color.

  20. Backboard

    A motion-driven animation framework for Android.

  21. EasyFlipView

    💳 A quick and easy flip view through which you can create views with two sides like credit cards, poker cards etc.

  22. mkloader

    Beautiful and smooth custom loading views

  23. PreLollipopTransition

    Simple tool which help you to implement activity and fragment transition for pre-Lollipop devices.

  24. ArcAnimator

    ArcAnimator helps to create arc transition animation: 2.3.+

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Animation projects in Java? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Lottie for Android, iOS, and React Native 35,598
2 Material-Animations 13,833
3 AndroidViewAnimations 12,478
4 UltimateAndroidReference 8,284
5 HTextView 5,658
6 AndroidImageSlider 5,620
7 transitions-everywhere 4,803
8 CircleIndicator 4,269
9 ChatKit for Android 3,723
10 ExplosionField 3,587
11 Music Player 3,523
12 animate 3,094
13 RecyclerViewItemAnimators 3,038
14 FabulousFilter 2,657
15 ShimmerLayout 2,525
16 AnimationEasingFunctions 2,461
17 CircularReveal 2,412
18 ColorPickerView 1,695
19 Backboard 1,686
20 EasyFlipView 1,389
21 mkloader 1,377
22 PreLollipopTransition 1,290
23 ArcAnimator 1,211

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