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animation_director #

A package to create nice and smooth animations for flutter

Introduction #

A simple package to build beautiful and smooth animations for flutter framework. By using this package, you don't need to bother yourself with AnimationControllers, AnimationTweens and also timing and of those animations.

Here there are some simple examples of what I've made with this package in 5 minutes for each one.

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The following descriptions may sounds complicated but it's pretty simple, sorry for my bad english, I think if you jump to example directory and take a look at the codes, you'll find out it's really easy to use

ActorWidget #

Each object on the screen is called an ActorWidget.

ActorWidget has two required properties:

    @required String name;
    @required List<ActorAction> actions;

each ActorAction is an individual animation of the ActorWidget.

All ActorWidgets in your page run simultaneously. All ActorActions inside of an ActorWidget run sequentially, but you can control how much it waits before starts the animation using waitBeforeStart

  // ___________________________________
  ActorWidget(                          |
    name: 'Actor1',                     |
    actions: [                          |
      // ___________                    |
      ActorAction(  |                   |
        ...         |                   |
      ),            |                   |
      ActorAction(  |                   |
        ...         | (Sequentially)    | (Simultaneously)
      ),            |                   |
      ActorAction(  |                   |
        ...         |                   |
      )             |                   |
      // ___________|                   |
  ]),                                   |
  ActorWidget(),                        | 
  ActorWidget(),                        |
  ActorWidget(),                        |
  // ___________________________________|
  

ActorAction Features #

ActorCharacter #

The actor character! your actor is represented by ActorCharacter.

ActorCharacter has the following properties:

    Duration duration;
    Curve curve;
    double width;
    double height;
    Widget child;
    String clipPath; // the string of the clip path
    EdgeInsets padding;
    EdgeInsets margin;
    BoxDecoration decoration;
    BoxDecoration foregroundDecoration;

Note: clipPath type is string! if follows svg codes rule. and for now only supports M, L, A, Q.

In order to generate a path you can use FlutterDev.site Path Creator. Draw your path and copy The Result to the clipPath property

ActorPosition #

You can animate the position of Actor using ActorPosition.

ActorPosition has the following properties

    Duration duration;
    Curve curve;
    double top;
    double left;
    double right;
    double bottom;

ActorOpacity #

To change the opacity of your Actor.

ActorOpacity has the following properties

    Duration duration;
    Curve curve;
    double opacity;

ActorScale #

To change the scale of your Actor.

ActorScale has the following properties

    Duration duration;
    Curve curve;
    double startScale;
    double finishScale;

ActorRotation #

To rotate, flip horizontal or vertical your Actor widget, you can use ActorRotation.

ActorRotation has the following properties

    Duration duration;
    Curve curve;
    double rotationTurns;
    Alignment alignment;
    bool clockwise;
    double startTween;
    double verticalFlipTurns;
    double horizontalFlipTurns;

ActorPath #

You can draw a path by using ActorPath. and if you define a ActorCharacter along with ActorPath, the container will move along the created path.

To draw your path again use FlutterDev.site Path Creator.

ActorPath has the following properties

    Duration duration;
    Curve curve;
    String path; // the String code of the path
    int traversePercentage; // the percentage of `ActorCharacter` movement along the path
    int startPositionInPercent; // the start position of animation in percent
    bool displayPath; // displays the path on the screen, 
    bool displayProgress; // displays the progress of path filling on the screen
    Offset offset; // you can align the position of ActorCharacter widget on the path
    Paint pathStyle; // style of the path line
    Paint progressStyle; // style of the progress line
    int progressLength; // the length of progress line, the default is as equal as the path
    int progressAnimationRepeat; // the repeat times of progress animation
    bool fadingProgress; // to make the tail of the progress line faded

Path Creator #

In order to create paths easily head to FlutterDev.site Path Creator.
Draw your path and copy the generated code from The Result.

Adaptive Size #

By default, the generated path is based on fixed numbers of your path and has the following effect

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If you want to draw your path to be adaptive to the screen of any device, you need to select Adaptive Width or Adaptive Height or both if you want your path to be fully adaptive. When you select for example Adaptive Width, the drawing-area width will be considered as mobile,tablet,... width so you get following effect with Adaptive Width. (500 for example)

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But keep in mind, in both cases, the result may be different on different screen-sizes.