Can you feel the difference?

There's a reason why some apps feel magical while others feel like a prototype.

A key difference? Animations.

Not just any animations—the kind that respond naturally to touch, that overshoot and settle like real objects, that make users say "this feels good" without knowing why.

The course covers everything from spring physics and gesture handling to Skia canvas and shaders.

Try these interactive demos:

From animated-path: the graph morphs using usePathInterpolation.

What you'll learn

18+ hours of content. 17 tutorials. From bouncing squares to shader transitions.

1

Foundation

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Start with the building blocks. Shared values, withTiming, withSpring—the fundamentals that everything else builds on.

Shared ValueswithTiming & withSpringAnimated Styles
2

Gestures

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Make your UI respond to touch. Pan gestures, tap gestures, and the subtle art of making interactions feel right.

Pan Gesture HandlerTap GesturesGesture + Animation coordination
3

Scroll & Layout

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Parallax effects, scroll-driven animations, and layout transitions that make content flow naturally.

Parallax AnimationScroll HandlersLayout Animations
4

Skia & Shaders

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Go beyond basic transforms. Custom paths, gradients, canvas drawing, and shader-based transitions.

Skia CanvasPath AnimationsImage Shader Transitions

What developers are saying

Feedback from the community.

Our whole team learned animation basics with your tutorials of Reanimated and Gesture Handler, you did an amazing job, thank you for that 🙏
Dima Ageev

Dima Ageev

Software Engineer

Incredible tutorial 🙌🏼 Love the format. Seeing Skia being used so skillfully is incredibly motivating for us going forward. Let's put the pedal to the metal.
William Candillon

William Candillon

Co-Author of React Native Skia

Your content is priceless. Thanks for making RN animations more accessible to all and congrats dude! Very well deserved. 📈🚀
Raffi Chilingaryan

Raffi Chilingaryan

Curator @spottedinprod

This is cool. I’ve seen a lot of people try to recreate our tray system and get fairly close. At this point though, maybe we should just consider open sourcing ours.
Benji Taylor

Benji Taylor

Founder @family

🎨 If you have not been properly introduced to reanimated, the @reactnative animation package from @swmansion , then this resource from @reactiive_ is a good place to start
Expo

Expo

Expo is Expo

It feels like every month someone is coming out with 2D animation demos that push the limits of what we thought was possible in React Native. One of my favorites is this one from Enzo Manuel Mangano (@reactiive_).
Daniel Friyia

Daniel Friyia

Software Engineer at Shopify

Our whole team learned animation basics with your tutorials of Reanimated and Gesture Handler, you did an amazing job, thank you for that 🙏
Dima Ageev

Dima Ageev

Software Engineer

Incredible tutorial 🙌🏼 Love the format. Seeing Skia being used so skillfully is incredibly motivating for us going forward. Let's put the pedal to the metal.
William Candillon

William Candillon

Co-Author of React Native Skia

Your content is priceless. Thanks for making RN animations more accessible to all and congrats dude! Very well deserved. 📈🚀
Raffi Chilingaryan

Raffi Chilingaryan

Curator @spottedinprod

This is cool. I’ve seen a lot of people try to recreate our tray system and get fairly close. At this point though, maybe we should just consider open sourcing ours.
Benji Taylor

Benji Taylor

Founder @family

🎨 If you have not been properly introduced to reanimated, the @reactnative animation package from @swmansion , then this resource from @reactiive_ is a good place to start
Expo

Expo

Expo is Expo

It feels like every month someone is coming out with 2D animation demos that push the limits of what we thought was possible in React Native. One of my favorites is this one from Enzo Manuel Mangano (@reactiive_).
Daniel Friyia

Daniel Friyia

Software Engineer at Shopify

Enzo Manuel Mangano

Enzo Manuel Mangano

@reactiive_

I'm a Design Engineer who's been teaching React Native animations on YouTube for years. I've spoken about animations at App.js and React Native London.

My teaching style is slow and deliberate. Every tutorial starts from scratch—a blank file—and builds up step by step. No magic, no skipping ahead. Just the process of creating something that feels right.

This course is everything I know about React Native animations, organized into a clear path from basics to advanced techniques.

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Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know before getting started.