Android Studio 4.1 Development Essentials – Kotlin Edition

50. An Android MotionLayout Editor Tutorial

Now that the basics of MotionLayout have been covered, this chapter will provide an opportunity to try out MotionLayout in an example project. In addition to continuing to explore the main features of MotionLayout, this chapter will also introduce the MotionLayout editor and explore how it can be used to visually construct and modify MotionLayout animations.

The project created in this chapter will make use of start and end ConstraintSets, gesture handlers and Attribute and Position Keyframes.

50.1 Creating the MotionLayoutDemo Project

Select the Create New Project quick start option from the welcome screen and, within the resulting new project dialog, choose the Empty Activity template before clicking ...