Rive

We've got a new Get Started video! 🎉 👀 If you're new to Rive and want to watch just one thing, make it this!

The harmony between design, animation, and cutting-edge technology is one of the key ways Duolingo teaches better. Our in-app animations and interactive lessons not only delight and motivate our learners, but also perform seamlessly for tens of millions of users on different devices and platforms worldwide. My colleagues Jeff Masters, Hazel Jennings, Clinton Fanelli, and I were interviewed by our friends at Rive, where we discussed a growing need for Creative Technologists - professionals who can collaborate closely with designers, artists, and engineers to build new features efficiently, and how they bridge the gap between disciplines by using Rive.

Interactive, state-machine driven, and connected to data — Rive is more than just a new animation format, it’s a new way to build graphics for software

Time Saver Tip: Set up your mesh animation once, then easily replace raster images in the editor in Rive - by Laura Calvo Music by RVRSPLAY

I’ve made quite a few changes to my side project, Float Free, since my last post. Here is a quick peak. I now have 5 different mindfulness “tools”, dark and light mode, haptics, and a paywall/in app purchase. I’m still not sure what my end game is with this, but it’s been a satisfying learning experience in the meantime! Shoutout to Rive for the excellent support on the last feature. Float Free: https://lnkd.in/e9u4i5wk

Thanks for the shout out Muzli

Over the last 3 months, the Twitter/X iOS app size has increased by ~15% 📈 Mostly the change comes from adding a number of 3rd party frameworks - with 2 notable additions. Twitter added Rive to the iOS app, so we can expect to see more complex animations in the app 💨 And next, what probably shouldn't have been added... 😶 Twitter added a number of Google/Firebase frameworks, including `FirebaseAppDistribution.framework` Why is that notable? Because it's not meant to be in production builds. It's the SDK used in Firebase's build distribution product for internal testing. This is the SDK that will prompt QA testers to update the app. We did a quick scan and out of the 1000s of apps we download, there are *only 10* other apps that include this framework and they aren't nearly as big as Twitter 🤓 Other notable apps that are including FirebaseAppDistribution in production include SoFi, Lime, Fishbrain and Adobe Connect For more app deep dives: - Check out our blog: https://lnkd.in/gwgC2e2y - Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/emergetools - Subscribe to our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gwNTPJJi

There’s a new design discipline at Duolingo: creative technologists. Here’s why they’re hiring animators with technical chops — and who is perfect for the job.

Revideo (YC S23) v0.5 is out! Konstantin and I spent a lot of time making the library more stable and reliable - it’s exciting to see more and more products built on top of our Revideo that are going live or are moving closer to getting into production 🚀 A highly requested feature we finally shipped is native support for Rive animations, using Rive’s javascript runtime. Now, developers can us our <Rive/> component to integrate more complex animations built with a visual editor into their Revideo projects. In the video below, you can see how you can use Rive animations in Revideo. As always, the demo video below is fully built with Revideo and can be found in the Github link in the comments 👨🍳

Create native iOS prototypes with Rive and Play - by Dmitry Novikov