Chapter 6
Resources and Animation
In This Chapter
• Creating a splash screen
• Working with animation resources
• Creating animation effects
• Using drawables to render content
If you have opened many apps on your mobile device, you might have noticed that some immediately open and others display an intermediate splash screen. Splash screens offer a chance to execute an initialization task in the background or to brand your app with a unique look and feel. They also happen to be a great way to begin working with images and two-dimensional animation.
By this point, you are familiar with creating new Activity classes and Views, and adding and modifying resources. In this chapter, you add some incremental knowledge to your developer’s toolkit. This ...
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