Across the Asian mobile software ecosystem—particularly in WeChat mini-programs, Douyin (TikTok), and gaming interfaces—Tencent PAG (Portable Animated Graphics) has largely replaced Lottie as the enterprise standard for complex vector and raster animations.
PAG offers several substantial advantages over Lottie: it uses a highly compressed binary file structure instead of verbose JSON, supports video clip layering directly inside After Effects compositions, and executes multi-threaded hardware-accelerated decoding that drastically reduces frame drops on budget Android devices.
However, like Lottie and Rive, PAG is primarily a passive playback format. You author a linear timeline in After Effects, export a .pag file, and play it back in the app via the PAG runtime.
ExodeUI addresses the fundamental need for interactive software engineering. Rather than playing back pre-rendered animations, ExodeUI powers tactile buttons, modal sheets, and navigation flows that interact in real time with user gestures, API loading states, and state machines, compiling to native code with zero third-party C++ libraries required.