Common questions about the SVGA format, cross-platform players, and Web Lite.

SVGA is an open-source, cross-platform animation format compatible with iOS, Android, Flutter, Web, HarmonyOS and more, delivering high-performance playback. See the official docs repo.

SVGA fits gift animations, campaign badges, onboarding motion, and interaction effects that need high-fidelity playback across platforms.

SVGA keeps the timeline and asset structure, similar to Dragonbones / CreateJS, which usually makes file size easier to control than frame-by-frame images and makes playback control and cross-platform reuse easier.

Yes. SVGA players, converters, and format specs are community-maintained. Review source code, open issues, or contribute on the GitHub svga organization.

SVGA has 1.x and 2.x. Version 1.x uses JSON to describe animations; 2.x uses ProtoBuf. Because JSON files grow too large for complex animations (slower parsing, higher memory), JSON was deprecated starting from 2.0.

1.x is described in JSON text (1.x spec); 2.x is described in ProtoBuf binary and compressed with zlib (2.x proto), resulting in smaller files and faster parsing.

SVGA files use the .svga extension, are ZIP-compressed, must not contain subdirectories after decompression, and file names must not contain non-standard characters (no Chinese, Japanese, etc.). Bitmaps must be PNG-8 or PNG-24; pngquant compression is recommended.

A 2.0.0 Player plays 2.x format files and is backward compatible with 1.x; a 1.x Player only plays 1.x format files and cannot play 2.x.

2.0.0 plans Audio and Bitmap Mask features; 1.x only guarantees stability. See the SVGA-Format repo.

Official players are provided for iOS, Android, Flutter, Web, Web Lite, WeChat Mini Program, and HarmonyOS NEXT. The full list is in svga/docs.

SVGAPlayer for Web is the full player; SVGAPlayer-Web-Lite targets mobile web with a smaller footprint (<60kb, gzip <18kb) and better performance, but does not support SVGA 1.x or audio playback.

Designers can use SVGAConverter to export .svga files from After Effects or Animate.

Official guides include the developer guide, the designer guide, and a cross-platform feature support table.

Community contributions include a React Native player (BANG88), a UWP player (LancerComet), and a VSCode SVGA preview plugin (ETTTTT).

It is a lightweight SVGA player for mobile web, aiming to be smaller and faster. Its size is <60kb (gzip <18kb) and it supports Android 4.4+ / iOS 9+. See the repo.

It parses file data with multi-threading (WebWorker) and renders with OffscreenCanvas / ImageBitmap, with better async handling. Experimental features include running the render engine in a WebWorker, replacing WebWorker with WebAssembly, and GPU-accelerated computation.

It does not support SVGA 1.x format files and does not support audio playback. If you need 1.x compatibility or audio, use the full SVGAPlayer for Web.

Install via npm with yarn add svga or npm i svga; or include via CDN: <script src="https://unpkg.com/svga/dist/index.min.js">.

It supports replacing and inserting dynamic elements (by modifying parsed data), persisting parsed data in IndexedDB to avoid repeated download/parse, IntersectionObserver-based viewport detection to pause off-screen rendering, and frame caching to speed up repeated playback.