Plugin for animated stickers

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Discourse could have a plugin that adds a new emoji picker for animated stickers.

There is a open format where animated stickers can be defined by a json file called lottiefiles.

Lottie is a library for Android, iOS, Web, and Windows that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile and on the web!

For the first time, designers can create and ship beautiful animations without an engineer painstakingly recreating it by hand. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words so here are 13,000:

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Recently Telegram launched Telegram Animated Stickers, building on the same technology and using a the .tgs file format:

All the tools to create those in After Effects are open source: GitHub - TelegramMessenger/bodymovin-extension: Bodymovin-tg — After Effects extension for exporting Telegram animated stickers.

The web player for the files is here: Lottie Web Player - LottieFiles

The plugin would add support for either tgs or lottie json files (tgs is just a gzipped lottie json) in here:

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and a new emoji picker in here

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which pops the new animated stickers picker:

Admins can find lottiefiles easily at LottieFiles: Download Free lightweight animations for website & apps. and convert to tgs using https://lottiefiles.com/preview/telegram

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Today Skia announced CanvasKit, a WASM renderer for Skia, which comes with Skottie, a plugin to render the lottie animations!

The player aims to build upon the Lottie player widely used for animations today, improving on the performance, feature set, and platform cohesiveness

https://jsfiddle.skia.org/canvaskit/092690b273b41076d2f00f0d43d004893d6bb9992c387c0385efa8e6f6bc83d7

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Is it possible to replace the icons with these animations?

exemple: twitter
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Link: Twitter Favorite Heart on Lottiefiles. Free Lottie, Bodymovin Animation

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There is nothing possible at the moment as this is just a plugin proposal which may never happen.

If we get the plugin built, we will have the ground work to render lottie animations, and may be able to extend it for icons, but that would be a lot of additional work.

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