Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

Creating a Card Flip Animation with Fragments

The card flip is a common animation that we will demonstrate using fragment transitions. We'll use two different images, one for the front and one for the back, to create the card flip effect. We'll need four animation resources, two for the front and two for the back transitions, which we will define in XML using objectAnimator.

Here's a screenshot of the application we'll build showing the Card Flip Animation in action: