PythonNative's Animated API mirrors React Native's. Build performant animations declaratively by binding [AnimatedValue][pythonnative.AnimatedValue] instances to the style of an Animated.View, Animated.Text, or Animated.Image. The reconciler holds a ref to the underlying native view. Connected values, derived expressions, and style bindings form a graph evaluated by the renderer, so supported animations bypass Python reconciliation on each frame. Unattached values, Python listeners, callable easing functions, and backends that decline native animation use the Python ticker.

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• The Animations guide walks through fade-ins, springs, sequences, and gesture-driven animations.
• [use_ref][pythonnative.use_ref] explains the ref semantics that back Animated.View.