Building a Customizable Animated Skeleton Loader in React Native
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Learn how to create a Skeleton Loader in React Native using Linear Gradient, Masked View, and Reanimated 2. This course provides step-by-step instructions and code examples for building a popular UI pattern for loading screens. Suitable for iOS, Expo, and Android platforms.
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
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Masked View
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Reanimated 2
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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
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Course Content
Create Linear Gradients in React Native Using React Native Linear Gradient
Using React Native Linear Gradient for Making White Text Visible on Light Images
Mask UI Elements in React Native With React Native Masked View
Using Animated Style from Reanimated 2 to Animate a View
Create a Skeleton Placeholder for your App Content
Animating a Skeleton Loader using Reanimated 2
