Here we'll dive into the API of Animated and all the various functions, code examples and reasons why you would want to use them.
Link to documentation http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/animated.html#content
To get access to it simple pull it off of your react-native require like so:
var React = require('react-native');
var {
View,
Animated
} = React;
By default, Animated gives us access to 3 animatable components: Animated.View, Animated.Text and Animated.Image.
Later we'll cover how any component can become animatable.