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static renders a LiveChart once with zero per-frame animation loops. The engine tick loop, the degen/trade/candle/marker callbacks, the pulse, and the entry reveal are all disabled, and scrubbing is off. That makes each instance cheap enough to put dozens of them in a scrolling list — a watchlist row, a token grid, a portfolio of sparklines. It mirrors react-native-graph’s animated={false}.

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When to use it

Reach for static when you’re rendering many mini-charts at once and don’t need them to animate or respond to touch. A single hero chart should stay live; a FlatList of forty thumbnails should be static.

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A sparkline cell

Strip the chrome you don’t need in a thumbnail — badge, axes, pulse — and frame the data edge-to-edge: 
function SparklineCell({ history, lastValue, lastTime, span }) {
  return (
    <LiveChart
      static
      data={history}
      value={lastValue}
      timeWindow={span}
      nowOverride={lastTime}
      badge={false}
      yAxis={false}
      xAxis={false}
      pulse={false}
    />
  );
}
Drop it into a list or grid: 
<FlatList
  data={tokens}
  numColumns={2}
  keyExtractor={(t) => t.id}
  renderItem={({ item }) => (
    <SparklineCell
      history={item.history}
      lastValue={item.lastValue}
      lastTime={item.lastTime}
      span={item.span}
    />
  )}
/>

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Framing the data

A static chart never scrolls, so you decide exactly what’s on screen. Set timeWindow to the span you want to show and nowOverride to your dataset’s last timestamp (unix seconds) so the window ends right at the latest point. This is the same approach as the historical data fill pattern in the playback guide.

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static vs paused

They sound similar but do opposite things:
  • paused freezes a live chart — the tick loop keeps running, the value keeps buffering, and resuming catches the window back up to real time. Use it for one interactive chart.
  • static removes the loops entirely — nothing animates and nothing recovers, because there’s nothing to recover. Use it for many instances at once.
See the full prop list in the LiveChart reference.