Lottie4J 1.2.0: dotLottie Support, Marker Playback, Cropping, and a Big Speed Boost

Version 1.2.0 of Lottie4J is out, and it's again a big release! The headline feature is support for the .lottie container format, but that's just the start. This release also brings marker-based playback, cropping, adaptive rendering, significant performance improvements, and a lot of core model fixes driven by testing more complex real-world animations. dotLottie File Support Until now, Lottie4J only supported the plain JSON format (.json). That's the original Lottie format, but LottieFiles also introduced a newer container format: .lottie. It's essentially a ZIP archive that can hold one or more animations, embedded images, sounds, and a manifest file that describes the contents. The .lottie format is a practical improvement: it makes Lottie files smaller and self-contained, bundling images and other assets alongside the animation data instead of relying on external references. Lottie4J now supports loading .lottie files directly via the core FileLoader. There are two loading modes a