Question

So I’ve been having animation issues especially when two animations happen at once or right when an activity loads. I understand it’s probably a resource problem and a lot of things are going on in the main thread causing the animations to stutter.

I’ve found a couple interesting suggestions:
1. Threads (ThreadPoolExecutor)
Here: How do I make my animation smoother Android
2. setDrawingCacheEnabled(true)

Here: How does Android's setDrawingCacheEnabled() work?
3. ViewGroup: animationCache = true
Here: http://www.curious-creature.org/2010/12/02/android-graphics-animations-and-tips-tricks/

However I haven’t been able to find any sort of examples to implement these things. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I’ve reduced the amount of stutter on my animations by following these rules listed in order of importance when reducing stutter:

1. Don’t initiate animations in onCreate, onStart or onResume.
2. Initiate animations on user events such as onClick and disable touch events until animation is complete.
3. Don’t initiate more than 2 animations simultaneously.