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# Lottie vs AVD

There are two ways to render After Effects animations:\
1\. Export json with Bodymovin and play it with lottie-android.\
2\. Export AndroidVectorDrawable xml with Bodymovin and play it using the Android SDK.

## Pros of Lottie

* Supports a much larger set of After Effects features. See [supported features](https://github.com/AaronO/lottie/tree/de10ddf848bcb673029ae78ceed5fce8fc245c19/after-effects/supported-features.md) for a full list.
* Manually set progress to hook up an animation to a gesture, event, etc.
* Download animations from the network.
* Dynamic playback speed.
* Masks are anti-aliased.
* Dynamically change the color of a specific part of an animations

## Pros of AnimatedVectorDrawable

* Faster peformance due to the animation running on the [RenderThread](https://medium.com/@workingkills/understanding-the-renderthread-4dc17bcaf979) vs the main thread.

## Bodymovin AVD exporter

Bodymovin can export some animations directly as AVDs if they suit your needs better.\
To do so, just check the AVD checkbox in the bodymovin settings:<br>

![AVD](/files/-L7jVVjt3YsSl9c_wFN0)

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This support is very experimental and only supports a subset of the functionality of lottie and avd.


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