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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners
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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

by John Horton
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
698 pages
15h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 19. Animations and Interpolations

Here, we will see how we can use the Animation class to make our UI a little less static and a bit more interesting. As we have come to expect, the Android API will allow us to do some quite advanced things with relatively straightforward code, and the Animation class is no different.

This chapter can be approximately divided into these parts:

  • An introduction to how animations in Android work and are implemented
  • An introduction to a UI widget that we haven't explored yet, the SeekBar class
  • A working animation app

First, let's explore how animations work in Android.

Animations in Android

The normal way to create an animation in Android is through XML. We can write XML animations, and then load and play them through ...

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