Google I/O 2013 - A Moving Experience
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering Android questions about property animation, view animations, and animated transitions between activities.
Recommended by 4 people across 4 different months, 2013 to 2015.
What it is
A Google I/O 2013 session by Android engineers Chet Haase and Romain Guy on building animations in Android apps. It covers the animation APIs, property animation, and how to combine techniques, including transitions between activities, with code examples.
What people said
Recommends sandrstar · 2013-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Property animation of a moving button android”
I would do it the following way: public class MyActivity extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); //new GetUrl().execute(20); // Test XML Files //testXMLFiles(); final Button speakButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.play); speakButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(final View v) { // TODO: DO something! } }); final ObjectAnimator horizontalAnimator = ObjectAnimator.ofInt(new ButtonAnimatorHelper(speakButton), "marginLeft", 0, 600); horizontalAnimator.setDuration(2000); horizontalAnimator.setRepeatCount(ValueAnimator.INFINITE); horizontalAnimat
Recommends sandrstar · 2013-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Property animation of a moving button android”
Have You seen this session on animation of views [this video] ? It gives good explanation and examples of usage of property animation.
Recommends Demian Hwang · 2013-10 · Stack Overflow · on “How to get Views in activity A animate to activity B's layout hierarchy?”
Google I/O 2013 A Moving Experience [this video] This session introduce similar example. You can fix the image location of Activity B or sending animation result layout from activity A to B using intent extra.
Recommends Gaëtan · 2014-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Listview animated component open detail view”
You can have a look at this talk from Google I/O '13. They show an example of transition between activities (which is what you are looking for if I understood correctly): [this video]
Recommends Peter · 2015-04 · Stack Overflow · on “What's the right way to animate a view when the activity is opened?”
Checking if savedInstanceState == null is the correct way to handle this. This Google I/O 2013 talk [this video] describes the technique.
Cites nbarraille · 2014-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Card Flip Animation between Activities”
It is not possible to do a card flip animation between activities as simply as stated in the accepted answer (which just expands the new activity from the middle of the screen to the sides). The reason for that, is that when calling overridePendingTransition() , you are just applying an animation to the activity that starts , not to the one that is currently open. In the (very good) tutorial that is linked to, there are 4 animations in total, which is 2 animations per transition (one for the fragment that's entering the screen, and one for the fragment that's exiting the screen). Here is how I solved that problem and made a flip card animation between my 2 activities, but it is very custom t