Can I change the Android startActivity transition animation

Question

I am starting an activity and would rather have a alpha fade-in for startActivity    and a fade-out for the finish    How can I go about this in the Android SDK

User · Accepted Answer

In the same statement in which you execute finish(), execute your animation there too. Then, in the new activity, run another animation. See this code:

fadein.xml

<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
     android:fillAfter="true">
     <alpha android:fromAlpha="1.0" 
            android:toAlpha="0.0"
            android:duration="500"/> //Time in milliseconds
</set>

In your finish-class

private void finishTask() {
    if("blabbla".equals("blablabla"){
        finish();
        runFadeInAnimation();
    }
}

private void runFadeInAnimation() {
    Animation a = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.fadein);
    a.reset();
    LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.yourviewhere);
    ll.clearAnimation();
    ll.startAnimation(a);   
}

fadeout.xml

<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
           android:fillAfter="true">
  <alpha android:fromAlpha="0.0"
         android:toAlpha="1.0"
         android:duration="500"/>
</set>

In your new Activity-class you create a similiar method like the runFadeAnimation I wrote and then you run it in onCreate and don't forget to change the resources id to fadeout.

User · Answer

I wanted to use the styles xml solution  but it did not work for me with activities  Turns out that instead of using android windowEnterAnimation and android windowExitAnimation  I need to use the activity animations like this   lt style name  quot ActivityAnimation Vertical quot  parent  quot  quot  gt       lt item name  quot android activityOpenEnterAnimation quot  gt  anim enter from bottom lt  item gt       lt item name  quot android activityOpenExitAnimation quot  gt  anim exit to bottom lt  item gt       lt item name  quot android activityCloseEnterAnimation quot  gt  anim enter from bottom lt  item gt       lt item name  quot android activityCloseExitAnimation quot  gt  anim exit to bottom lt  item gt       lt item name  quot android windowEnterAnimation quot  gt  anim enter from bottom lt  item gt       lt item name  quot android windowExitAnimation quot  gt  anim exit to bottom lt  item gt   lt  style gt   Also  for some reason this only worked from Android 8 and above  I added the following code to my BaseActivity  to fix it for the API levels below  override fun finish         super finish       setAnimationsFix             The activityCloseExitAnimation and activityCloseEnterAnimation properties do not work correctly when applied from the theme     So in this fix  we retrieve them from the theme  and apply them      suppress Incorrect warning  https   stackoverflow com a 36263900 1395437      SuppressLint  quot ResourceType quot   private fun setAnimationsFix            Retrieve the animations set in the theme applied to this activity in the manifest       var activityStyle   theme obtainStyledAttributes intArrayOf attr windowAnimationStyle       val windowAnimationStyleResId   activityStyle getResourceId 0  0      activityStyle recycle          Now retrieve the resource ids of the actual animations used in the animation style pointed to by        the window animation resource id      activityStyle   theme obtainStyledAttributes windowAnimationStyleResId  intArrayOf activityCloseEnterAnimation  activityCloseExitAnimation       val activityCloseEnterAnimation   activityStyle getResourceId 0  0      val activityCloseExitAnimation   activityStyle getResourceId 1  0      activityStyle recycle       overridePendingTransition activityCloseEnterAnimation  activityCloseExitAnimation

User · Answer

Use overridePendingTransition  startActivity    overridePendingTransition R anim fadein  R anim fadeout     fadein xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt set xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt       lt 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  500    gt   lt  set gt    fadeout xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt set xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt       lt alpha xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android          android interpolator   android anim anticipate interpolator          android fromAlpha  1 0  android toAlpha  0 0  android duration  500    gt   lt  set gt

User · Answer

You can simply create a context and do something like below -  private Context context   this    And your animation -    Activity  context  overridePendingTransition R anim abc slide in bottom R anim abc slide out bottom     You can use any animation you want

User · Answer

If you always want to the same transition animation for the activity   Override protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState       overridePendingTransition android R anim fade in  android R anim fade out     Override protected void onPause         super onPause        if  isFinishing              overridePendingTransition android R anim fade in  android R anim fade out

User · Answer

Most of the answers are pretty correct  but some of them are deprecated such as when using R anim hold and some of them are just elaboratig the process  So  you can use  startActivity intent   overridePendingTransition android R anim fade in  android R anim fade out

User · Answer

Starting from API level 5 you can call overridePendingTransition immediately to specify an explicit transition animation   startActivity    overridePendingTransition R anim hold  R anim fade in     or  finish    overridePendingTransition R anim hold  R anim fade out

User · Answer

See themes on android  http   developer android com guide topics ui themes html   Under themes xml there should be android windowAnimationStyle where you can see the declaration of the style in styles xml   Example implementation    lt style name  AppTheme  parent       gt                 lt item name  android windowAnimationStyle  gt  style WindowAnimationStyle lt  item gt    lt  style gt    lt style name  WindowAnimationStyle  gt       lt item name  android windowEnterAnimation  gt  android anim fade in lt  item gt       lt item name  android windowExitAnimation  gt  android anim fade out lt  item gt   lt  style gt

User · Answer

For fadeIn and fadeOut  only add this after super onCreate savedInstanceState  in your new Activity class  You don t need to create something else  No XML  no anim folder  no extra function     overridePendingTransition R anim abc fade in R anim abc fade out

User · Answer

CREATE anim       CREATE animation animation2  xml    animation like fade out     Intent myIntent1   new Intent getApplicationContext    Attend class     Bundle bndlanimation1    ActivityOptions makeCustomAnimation getApplicationContext       R anim animation  R anim animation2  toBundle      tartActivity myIntent1  bndlanimation1

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