Learn Android App Development

Chapter     10

Android Vector Animation: Procedural Animation via XML Constructs

In this second chapter covering animation, we will learn about the “other” type of animation in Android, the type that uses code, rather than pixels, to produce its magic. This type of code-based animation is commonly called procedural animation and involves things like ranges and pivot points.

There are several procedural animation terms used in the industry. If you hear the term tween animation, it is referring to a procedural way of creating animation. This is because tweening is actually interpolation, or dividing the number of frames you want your animation to span, between the start and end values, or range, for that animation’s calculation.

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