Animation lottie in nuget as EmbeddedResource not working

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Hello, I have created an nuget for internal project at work with specific ContentView who use lottie animation as json. I am trying to call animation stored in same project as embedded resource on android device. i d'ont want animation file in android project...

<lottie:AnimationView x:Name="animationView" Grid.Row="0" Animation="resource://Resources.Animations.loader.json?assembly=xxx.yy.UI" AnimationSource="EmbeddedResource" AutoPlay="True" HeightRequest="150" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" RepeatMode="Infinite" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" WidthRequest="150" />

xxx.yy.Ui is current nuget name/namespace Resources.Animations.loader.json is folder name & file name

No animation is displayed .. any idea ?

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[Genfood]

I have the same problem.

[RenaudAvenas]

I read how Animation is parsed and some prerequise need to be explain :

• the URI must begin with "resource://"
• You need to set the name of resource without starts of namespace (Resources.Animations.loader.json not xxx.yy.UI.Resources.Animations.loader.json)
• If you want to specify assembly that contains the resource, use a '?' to seperate resource name from assembly name and insert assembly query parameter (resource://NameOfResource?assembly=NameOfAssembly)
• The resource will be NameOfAssembly.NameOfResource

The important remarks is that if your assembly name is not equals to your namespace, the resource will not be found. Be sure xxx.yy.UI are both assembly name and beginning of namespace.

With this information, I solved the problem and it works for me. An another difference with my code (maybe it is important), I set the AnimationSource before the Animation property.