Create a scrolling parallax effect

Create a staggered menu animation

Create a shimmer loading effect

Cookbook

Effects

Create a shimmer loading effect

Draw the shimmer shapes

Paint the shimmer gradient

Paint one big shimmer

Animate the shimmer

Loading times are unavoidable in application development.
From a user experience (UX) perspective,
the most important thing is to show your users 
that loading is taking place. One popular approach
to communicate to users that data is loading is to
display a chrome color with a shimmer animation over 
the shapes that approximate the type of content that is loading.

The following animation shows the app’s behavior: