Android Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

A transition animation – defining scenes and applying a transition

The Android Transition Framework offers the following:

• Group-level animations: Animation applies to all views in a hierarchy
• Transition-based animation: Animation based on starting and ending property change
• Built-in animations: Some common transition effects, such as fade-in/out and movement
• Resource file support: Save animation values to a resource (XML) file to load during runtime
• Lifecycle callbacks: Receive callback notifications during the animation

A transition animation consists of the following:

• Starting Scene: The view (or ViewGroup) at the start of the animation
• Transition: The change type (see later on)
• Ending Scene: The ending view (or ViewGroup)
• Transitions: Android provides ...