Activity transition in Android
Yes. You can tell the OS what kind of transition you want to have for your activity.
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
getWindow().setWindowAnimations(ANIMATION);
...
}
Where ANIMATION is an integer referring to a built in animation in the OS.
An even easy way to do it is:
- Create an animation style into your styles.xml file
<style name="WindowAnimationTransition"> <item name="android:windowEnterAnimation">@android:anim/fade_in</item> <item name="android:windowExitAnimation">@android:anim/fade_out</item> </style>
- Add this style to your app theme
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar"> <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@style/WindowAnimationTransition</item> </style>
That's it :)
You can do this with Activity.overridePendingTransition()
. You can define simple transition animations in an XML resource file.
Here's the code to do a nice smooth fade between two Activities..
Create a file called fadein.xml
in res/anim
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<alpha xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:interpolator="@android:anim/accelerate_interpolator"
android:fromAlpha="0.0" android:toAlpha="1.0" android:duration="2000" />
Create a file called fadeout.xml
in res/anim
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<alpha xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:interpolator="@android:anim/accelerate_interpolator"
android:fromAlpha="1.0" android:toAlpha="0.0" android:duration="2000" />
If you want to fade from Activity A to Activity B, put the following in the onCreate()
method for Activity B. Before setContentView()
works for me.
overridePendingTransition(R.anim.fadein, R.anim.fadeout);
If the fades are too slow for you, change android:duration
in the xml files above to something smaller.