Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

Animating fragment navigation

Navigating between fragments is easy to do, but it appears very sharp and does not provide a smooth user experience. We can improve this by adding transitions to the navigation.

How to do it...

When navigating between fragments, we can add an animation, or rather a transition to make the overall change seem less sharp and more appealing:

1. One of the simplest ways to add animations to transitions is to simply make use of the built-in animations, such as fade or open. This is set by calling the SetTransition() method:

   SupportFragmentManager
     .BeginTransaction()
     .SetTransition(FragmentTransaction.TransitFragmentOpen)
     .Replace(Resource.Id.fragmentContainer, content)
     .AddToBackStack(null)
     .Commit();

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