Android Animations by Tutorials: Build Meaningful Motion in Android Apps

Learn How to Use Animations in Android!

Over the years Android has provided many APIs for creating animations. An Android developer must create visually appealing and useable apps by incorporating a wide variety of these animation tools in the right places.

Android Animations by Tutorials is here to help, by showing you the way to use simple and subtle view animations, animating transitions between activities and fragments, animating lists including gestures and scrolling and even using animations in the new Jetpack Compose.

Who This Book is For

This book is for developers who know the fundamentals of Android and are familiar with the common Android SDK features, but would like to build beautiful user interface’s with meaningful motion in the most crucial parts of their apps.

Topics Covered in Android Animations by Tutorials

• View Animations Learn how to use ValueAnimator and ObjectAnimator to provide subtle yet meaningful cues to your users. Learn to animate custom views.
• XML Animations Explore how to use XML animations on views and also when transitioning between activities and fragments.
• Transition Animations Add cool animation effects when transitioning between activities and fragments with and without the navigation component.
• Shared Element Transitions Transition between a list item and a detail view while highlighting a shared element between the two screens to create an amazing user experience.
• List Animations Utilize ItemAnimator to animate the creation, reordering and removal of items in a list.
• Animate Gestures with Lists Animate drag and drop gestures when reordering a list, use item resetting to notify a user when they’ve swiped an item.
• Scrolling Animations Create amazing animation effects when the user scrolls views and lists in your app.
• Jetpack Compose Animations Take a look at how to use animations in the exciting new Jetpack Compose by responding to state changes.

One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you’ll be prepared to add meaningful motion to the most important parts of your own Android apps.