[FR]: dotLottie support

[josh-burton]

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Describe the problem

dotLottie is compressed lottie file format that would be great to support

Describe the solution

Support the file format

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[AlexV525]

Could you provide the spec of the format and a use case that how Lottie in Flutter uses that format?

[dungngminh]

This is document of dotLottie from Lottie: https://lottiefiles.notion.site/Getting-started-with-dotLottie-907cb7b157b34990a7bba7bcae8f21b0

As mentioned in this document, dotLotties is allowing for considerably smaller animation files compared to JSON. It makes Lottie animation file size smaller than JSON and has some benefits in Lottie Development and Design.

lottie package currently supports dotLottie from 3.0.0, I think flutter_gen currently supports .zip and hopefully will support dotLotties ASAP.

[AlexV525]

Looks like we can accept the .lottie extension as an easy approach.

EDIT: I was looking at the implementation of the package:lottie and it seems to require some extra definition which looks inaccessible by the library.

Lottie.asset(
  'animation.lottie',
  decoder: customDecoder,
);

Future<LottieComposition?> customDecoder(List<int> bytes) {
  return LottieComposition.decodeZip(bytes, filePicker: (files) {
    return files.firstWhere((f) => f.name == 'animations/cat.json');
  });
}

Consider the above code, the JSON file is manually picked by the iterator. We didn't support generating something like that so the generated assets probably won't have a .lottie constructor.

[dungngminh]

Make sense! If you can accept it as extension, I think we should add more docs / notes for require some extra definition attention

[dungngminh]

decoder basically is a parameter of Lottie, it need to be provided customDecoder for .lottie file is must do, developers must read documentation and know it before implementation.