React-Native: How to add full screen Lottie animation - react-native

Question

I am using linear gradient from lottie, the code is working fine with ios but in android its not fitting to full screen, there is some kind of padding between gradient and the view.
On ios its working fine...i tried many ways,
buy including padding to 0 and even margin to -20, but nothing worked...any solution?
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
Text,
StyleSheet,
View,
Platform,
Dimensions
} from 'react-native';
import SignInScreen from './src/screens/auth/SignInScreen';
import Animation from 'lottie-react-native';
import anim from './assets/gradient_animated_background.json';
const height = Dimensions.get('window').height + 20;
const width = Dimensions.get('window').width + 20;
export default class App extends Component {
componentDidMount() {
this.animation.play();
}
render() {
return (
<View style={styles.container}>
<Animation
ref={animation => {
this.animation = animation;
}}
style={{
backgroundColor: 'red',
height: '100%',
width: '100%'
}}
loop={true}
source={Platform.OS === 'ios' ? anim : 'gradient_animated_background.json'}
/>
</View>
);
}
}
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
container: {
backgroundColor: 'blue',
flex: 1,
},
welcome: {
fontSize: 20,
textAlign: 'center',
margin: 10,
color: '#ffffff'
}
});
The animation, and when ever i keep changing the width and height..it forcefully tries to maintain the aspect radio...(not sure though)
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Answer 1

What you are missing is the resizeMode, which is not specified on the documentation page, but if you look at the source you'll find it.
Here's something that works if you don't care to lose a few pixels:
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
StyleSheet,
View,
Dimensions
} from 'react-native';
import LottieView from 'lottie-react-native';
import { anim } from './assets/animation.json';
const { height, width } = Dimensions.get('window')
export default class App extends Component {
componentDidMount() {
this.animation.play();
}
render() {
return (
<View style={styles.container}>
<LottieView
ref={animation => {
this.animation = animation;
}}
style={{
width: width + 10,
height: height,
marginLeft: - 5
}}
resizeMode='cover'
loop={true}
source={anim}
/>
</View>
);
}
}
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
container: {
backgroundColor: 'blue',
flex: 1,
},
});
Notice that I've exported the asset a bit differently since I tried this on https://snack.expo.io and for some reason they don't like JSON files 😁, so now the assets look something
/assets/animation.json.js
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Answer 2

So the first answer raised an important point (adding resizeMode="cover").
But that's not enough, If you test across several screens sizes, you might still find unwanted margins and spaces. I had this issue too,
Here's the simple solution:
Get the dimensions of the lottie file (e.g 300 X 600)
Set width only, then use aspectRatio to determine the height. (must)
Set flexGrow = 1 (must)
e.g
<LottieView
style={{
width: 300,
aspectRatio: 300 / 600,
flexGrow: 1,
alignSelf: 'center',
}}
resizeMode="cover"
ref={animation=> { this.animation = animation; }}
source={require ('./assets/animation.json')}
autoPlay={false}
loop={false}
/>
I guess the problem arises because you cant use width and height at the same time in the styling of the Lottie view.
So an easy workaround is to use the width and aspectRatio
Good luck!