Question

It should be a pretty simple question that I cannot find through google or the docs for the life of me. How do I change the transition style of my activity?

From what I’ve heard, there are the grow, left/right and up/down transitions for presenting and dismissing activities, but I don’t have a clue how to implement them.

Answer 1

WHen you are doing:

startActivity(intent);

just put:

startActivity(intent);
overridePendingTransition(animIn, animOut);

animIn and animOut are ints that you can just define in anim resources folder for example:

slideInLeft.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<translate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:fromXDelta="100%p" android:toXDelta="0%p"
    android:duration="@android:integer/config_longAnimTime" />

slideOutLeft.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<translate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:fromXDelta="0" android:toXDelta="-100%p"
    android:duration="@android:integer/config_longAnimTime" />

And when you want to return to the first activity you need to do the same but in finish method of activity:

finish();
overridePendingTransition(animIn, animOut);