You can create a more interactive and engaging user experience in your app by loading a drawable file to display animated images. Animated images are useful for creating loading indicators, success or error indicators, facilitating game development, and various other UI functions.
Version compatibility
This implementation requires that your project minSDK be set to API level 21 or higher.
Dependencies
Display an animated image
The following code displays an animated vector that automatically toggles between two states:
Key points about the code
- Loads a vector resource, animating the drawing attributes over time.
- An
Image
instance that uses aPainter
instance to perform the animation, created from theAnimatedImageVector
andboolean
state by therememberAnimatedVectorPainter()
function. - When
atEnd
istrue
, thePainter
instance stops animating.
Results
![Hourglass animating its contents and rotating](https://developer.android.com/static/develop/ui/compose/images/animations/avd_example_compose.gif?authuser=5)
Parent collections
![](https://developer.android.com/static/images/quick-guides/collection-illustration.png?authuser=5)
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