MotionLayout is a wonderful tool for creating complex layout animations. However it does have some foibles which are easy enough to work around, but can initially be baffling. In this post we’ll look at some oddities concerning the visibility of views within the layout.
Category: MotionLayout
Motion Vectors
Regular readers of Styling Android will not be surprised to hear that I rather like animations. A couple of really useful tools for creating nice animations are AnimatedVectorDrawable (AVD), and MotionLayout and it should come as no surprise that I am a big fan of both. But using them together is not easy. In this…
MotionLayout: Dynamic Toolbar
Regular readers of Styling Android may have guessed that I rather enjoy animating things. MotionLayout offers amazing scope for animations and it’s possible to create some really interesting animations using it. We’ve looked at how to implement a Collapsing Toolbar previously on Styling Android, but we’re not limited to just mimicking existing behaviours which can…
MotionLayout – Collapsing Toolbar – Part 2
At Google IO 2018 ConstraintLayout 2.0 was announced and the biggest new addition was MotionLayout which gives us an amazing new tool for layout animations. Nicolas Roard has already published an excellent introduction to MotionLayout and I would highly recommend giving that a read to understand the basics and components of MotionLayout. In this short…
MotionLayout – Collapsing Toolbar – Part 1
At Google IO 2018 ConstraintLayout 2.0 was announced and the biggest new addition was MotionLayout which gives us an amazing new tool for layout animations. Nicolas Roard has already published an excellent introduction to MotionLayout and I would highly recommend giving that a read to understand the basics and components of MotionLayout. In this short…