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Build an Animated App with Rive and SwiftUI

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Design and code an iOS app with Rive animated assets, icon animations, custom layouts and interactions

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Build an Animated App with Rive and SwiftUI

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Build an Animated App with Rive and SwiftUI

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Background Animation in Rive

8:23

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Button Animation in Rive

10:52

4

Custom Fonts

14:39

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Custom Modal

12:54

6

Modal Transition

12:15

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Loading and Success Animation

13:05

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Tab Bar Animated Icons

9:15

9

Tab Bar Selection

7:14

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Icon Animation in Rive

13:44

11

Layout and Card Components

18:03

12

Side Menu Animated Icons

10:47

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Side Menu Selection

10:32

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Side Menu Animation

6:52

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Main View Animation

15:22

Meet Rive

Rive offers their own animation tool and give far more control for composing Artboards, animations and states thanks to their powerful editor and convenient SwiftUI Library, Android and Web libraries. Their tool works for Windows and Mac and you can collaborate in real-time with a team. Also, you can find, inspect and use hundreds of animated assets made by the Community.

Sponsored Course

This course is entirely free thanks to Rive. In this course, we’ll build an app from scratch in SwiftUI and focus on recreating popular animations such as backgrounds, tab bar, buttons, etc. We’ll also learn how to create our own animations using Figma and the Rive editor. The design and the source files are provided so that you can compare against your own progress.

Animated

Download Assets

To follow this course, you will need to download the Assets which include the Figma template, Xcode projects and Rive Assets.

Requirements

Compared to many frameworks, SwiftUI is easy to learn and has a ton of resources made by Apple and the community. Since my teaching style is friendly, focused on visuals and we'll code together step-by-step from a designer's perspective, you can learn with virtually zero experience. However, it is recommended that you are familiar with a computer and have light experience with HTML and CSS.

Developing an app for iOS 15 requires a Mac with Big Sur or later, and Xcode 13.

Figma Template

The full design is included with the text styles and components. Building an app while following a design is recommended to help understand the decisions behind each line of code. You can download the assets at the bottom of this page.

Download Xcode

Xcode 13 is the application for building iOS apps and is required to follow this course. We’ll be using SwiftUI 3 and our deployment target will be iOS 15. To download, head to the Mac App Store and search for Xcode. Make sure to download and install the components.

Getting Started with Rive

Let’s start by creating a simple background animation with basic shapes. While this can be done directly in code, the advantage of using Rive is to ability to decouple the animation process and let designers focus on the tool rather than editing the code. You can create a free account which, similar to Figma, gives you all the features minus team collaboration.

Rive Assets

Another key advantage with Rive is being able to use community-made assets. For general assets like icons and loading animations that are not usually custom-made, you can browse the Community.

Here are a few animated icon sets and loaders that stand out:

Icons

Loaders

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Multiple Artboards

Rive gives you the ability to select multiple Artboards from a single animated asset. As a result, you can have your entire library of icons in a single file.

In SwiftUI, set the filename as resource and specify Artboard name.

RiveViewModel(fileName: "icons", artboardName: "HOME").view()
	.background(.blue)

Play Animations

For each Artboard, you can create multiple animations like error and success.

In SwiftUI, each animation can be specified by name.

RiveViewModel(fileName: "check", artboardName: "check_artboard", animationName: "Check").view()

State Machine

Rive really shines when it comes to using states. You can compose the flow of your animations and switch seamlessly. Not only can you switch between true or false but you can also input a number.

In this code, we’re setting the View Model so that we can update the number of rooms for the house. It will animate according to the rooms state.

let animation = RiveViewModel(fileName: "house", stateMachineName: "State Machine 1")
@State var rooms: Float = 3

var body: some View {
    animation.view()
        .onAppear {
            try? animation.setInput("Rooms", value: rooms)
        }
}

You can use a Stepper to make it more interactive. Please note that this demo only works in the Simulator.

let animation = RiveViewModel(fileName: "house", stateMachineName: "State Machine 1")
@State var rooms: Float = 3

var body: some View {
    VStack {
        Stepper(value: $rooms, in: 3...6) {
            Text(String(format: "%.0f", rooms))
        }
        .padding(20)

        animation.view()
    }
    .onChange(of: rooms) { newValue in
        changeValue()
    }
    .onAppear {
        changeValue()
    }
}

func changeValue() {
    try? animation.setInput("Rooms", value: rooms)
}

Create an Xcode Project

After installing Xcode, create a new project. Select App , set the name to Animated with your domain name in reverse for the organization identifier and Interface to SwiftUI . Click Next.

Assets Catalog

Go to the Assets Catalog and delete the existing AppIcon and AccentColor . Then, go to the Assets folder from the source files provided and drag and drop all the folders.

Import Rive Assets

For the animated assets, we’ll drag and drop the folder RiveAssets comprised of files in .riv format to the left Navigator panel, next to Assets . Make sure to enable Copy items if needed , create groups and Add to targets checked.

Import Rive SPM Library

Rive has a library that fully supports SwiftUI. You won’t even to bridge using UIViewRepresentable since it’s already part of the library, making the usage a breeze. To install, go to File → Add Packages . In the window, paste the following link to the top right URL input.

https://github.com/rive-app/rive-ios

Click on Add Package , then Add Package again in the subsequent window.

Using Animated Assets

Once the Rive library is installed, import RiveRunTime whenever you need it. Let’s create a new file OnboardingView.

import RiveRuntime

With this, you’ll be able to set the animation view and you can treat it just like any other view. Let’s start with the shapes file. Since we’re rendering a view, make sure to add .view() to RiveViewModel . Then, adjust the size, safe area, blur and background.

RiveViewModel(fileName: "shapes").view()
    .ignoresSafeArea()
    .blur(radius: 30)
    .background(
        Image("Spline")
            .blur(radius: 50)
            .offset(x: 200, y: 100)
    )

To see the animation in action, click Play on your Preview. That’s it! Note that the animation timing should be edited in the Rive editor.

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Build an Animated App with Rive and SwiftUI

Design and code an iOS app with Rive animated assets, icon animations, custom layouts and interactions

9:55

2

Background Animation in Rive

Create a simple animation in Rive from scratch using SVG shapes

8:23

3

Button Animation in Rive

Create a simple button animation with timing and clipping in Rive and SwiftUI

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4

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7

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8

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9:15

9

Tab Bar Selection

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10

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13:44

11

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18:03

12

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10:47

13

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10:32

14

Side Menu Animation

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15

Main View Animation

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15:22

Meet the instructor

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Meng To

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