Question

I’ve been recently getting my feet wet with android development.

What I would like to do, is once the app is opened; a screen with a logo would appear, hold for a second, then animate left to another screen.

I have layouts designed. How would I go about animating those 2? The java part is where I don’t quite know where to begin.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

When you launch the intent use overridePendingTransition(android.R.anim.slide_out_right, android.R.anim.slide_in_left); if this isn’t the effect you are after you can change the animations to other ones in android.R.anim or define your own in XML and instead point to your anim folder R.anim

here is an example of a custom animation, you would save this in res/anim/

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <translate android:fromXDelta="0" android:toXDelta="-50%p"
        android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime"/>
    <alpha android:fromAlpha="1.0" android:toAlpha="0.0"
        android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime" />
</set>