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Full-screen gifts: castles, fireworks and love scenes
How showpiece gifts work on tall phone screens: canvas and safe areas, length, sound, file weight and gift tiers, using real specs from our Animated Gifts collection.
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Posts about Performance
Guides, collection spotlights and file-spec notes for teams who ship SVGA and PAG animations in live-streaming and voice-chat apps.
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Animating the app around the room: backgrounds, tabs and screens
Loading loops, login backgrounds, Hot and New tags and dialog backgrounds: how to animate the screens around a live room without slowing the app, with real file sizes.
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Voice Chat Room Mic and Seat Animations (SVGA)
Speaking rings, seat states, mic links and DJ stages: how the smallest animations tell a voice room who is talking, with real frame rates and file sizes for each piece.
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Reading an animation spec sheet: canvas, frame rate and loop length
Canvas, frame rate, length, size and sound: what each number on an SVGA or PAG spec line tells you about fitting, looping, syncing and loading a file.
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File size budgets for gift animations on budget phones
The store median is 88 KB but the heaviest gift is 19.20 MB. How to set size budgets per surface, what really makes an SVGA heavy, and how to load big gifts on cheap phones.
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Level ladders: designing Level 0 to 120 and the level-up moment
How to build a level ladder that stays readable at badge size: ten-level bands, real plate weights from Level 0 to 120, level-up staging, relegation and room levels.
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Gift combos and multipliers: how to pace a sending streak
Combo controls, gift numbers and x5 to x1000 multipliers each answer a different question for the sender. Here is how to pace them, with real lengths and sizes from the store.
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How to test an SVGA or PAG file before you ship it
A practical routine for checking any SVGA or PAG file in the free browser viewer: specs, actual size, backgrounds, loop seam and sound, plus a pre-release checklist with real file specs.
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