Archive for the ‘Animation’ Category
Simple Animation – Part 3
Friday, May 6th, 2011In the previous articles we have looked at a couple of animation types and the stock interpolators that are available to us. Next we’ll look at the remaining animation types.
You can get the source code for the project that we’re working on here.
We’ve already encountered translate and alpha animations, and there are a couple more: rotate and scale. These are fairly self-explanatory as they allow us to rotate and scale a view respectively. There is a final animation type, known as an Animation Set which allows us to combine animations together. Animation sets are extremely powerful, and allow us to do some quite complex things.
Simple Animation – Part 2
Thursday, April 28th, 2011In the previous article we got a simple animated transition working. You can get the previous source code here.
It is worth pointing out that there are some stock animations available to us but, for some reason, in Android 2.3.3 only four are actually made public so that we can actually use them in our apps. The good news is that they are visible in AOSP, and there are some useful techniques that we can learn by studying some of the animations used by Android itself.
Simple Animation – Part 1
Thursday, April 21st, 2011In this article we are going to be covering some simple animations in Android. In Honeycomb, Google introduced some new animation functionality, however given the relative scarcity of Honeycomb devices, we’ll focus on the animation tools that are available in earlier version of Android.
