# Loading Shimmer in Compose - Júlia Jakubcová

DevFeed: [Loading Shimmer in Compose - Júlia Jakubcová](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/loading-shimmer-in-compose-julia-jakubcova-38291.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://touchlab.co/loading-shimmer-in-compose>)

Published: 2022-09-27T19:56:26Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Touchlab | Enterprise Mobile Innovation & Development](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/touchlab-enterprise-mobile-innovation-development.md>)

Topics: [Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compose.md>), [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>)

Tags: [animation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/animation.md>), [compose](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compose.md>), [kotlin-multiplatform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin-multiplatform.md>), [loading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/loading.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial showing how to create a shimmering loading effect for gray skeleton views in Compose. It covers building placeholder views, animating a light beam across them, configuring the beam's direction and width, and applying the effect through an extension.

## Source excerpt

Compose provides circular and linear progress indicators. However, lately it's popular to show gray skeletons of the views that are being loaded with a shimmering animation on them. It's a nice touch that can make your applications look a bit more refined. Here is how I created this effect with Compose.