Building a Customizable Animated Skeleton Loader in React Native
Instructor
Kadi Kraman
A skeleton loader is a popular UI pattern for loading screens: instead of a spinner, we show static or an animated placeholder for the information that is still loading.
In this course, we go through 3 instrumental libraries for React Native - Linear Gradient, Masked View, and Reanimated 2 - and in the end, we use them in tandem to build a Skeleton Loader.
Linear Gradient Expo | Pure React Native
Masked View Expo | Pure React Native
Reanimated 2 Expo | Pure React Native
This course is built using an iOS simulator on plain React Native. Still, it will work on Expo and Android (you'll need to follow the relevant installation instructions available in the documentation).
The finished code for the skeleton loader (last 2 lessons) is available on Expo Snack.
Credits
Maggie Appleton (illustration)What you'll learn
- Linear Gradient
- Masked View
- Reanimated 2
- Implement Animated Styles
Learner Reviews
- Learner2 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Sooo cool, this is what I was looking for, thx for this knowledge. :)
- Dmitry Birin2 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
This is much more, that I've expected from the name. It's slowly going through really useful and practical things for your application, so at the end you can combine all of them and have nice Animated Skeleton. Thanks for doing it!
- Bogdan Nenu3 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Concise and good examples of usage!
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