Treehouse - Animations and Transitions

This course teaches how to implement animations on Android, with a focus on Material Design styled visual effects on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and above. You will build realistic animations that can be directly applied to real world apps.
You will learn the fundamentals of how Android animations and transitions work, how to implement popular animations, and last but not least, the tricks and tips to work around common issues that you will very likely encounter when building animations.


Animations Basics
This stage will briefly introduce various types of animations on Android, and dives into property animations, the cornerstone of the latest animation technology on Android.
11 steps
Introducing Android Animations
1:17
Animation Tools in Android
1:57
Property Animation
4:26
Property Animation
3 objectives
Introducing ObjectAnimator
3:16
Animation Choreographing
4:13
Choreograph an Animation
3 objectives
Animations Review
5 questions
Animation Timing Control
4:06
Defining animations in XML
5:11
Create an Animation in XML
4 objectives
The Transitions Framework
Introduced in Android 4.4 (Kit Kat), the transitions framework provides a new way to animate views at a higher level.
12 steps
Introducing Transitions
1:16
Adding a Transition
5:16
Creating a TransitionSet
3:11
Create a Transition
2 objectives
Common Pitfalls
4:15
Review Transitions
5 questions
Transitioning Back
5:45
Transitioning Back and Forth
4:50
Transitioning Back and Forth
4 objectives
Custom Transitions
4:49
Extending Transitions
8:13
Create a Custom Transition
2 objectives
Shared Element Transitions
Android 5.0 (Lollipop) provides powerful tools, such as activity transitions, to implement complex animations with just a few lines of code. In this stage, we’ll cover “shared element transition” that improves visual continuity with smooth transitions between activities.
6 steps
Activity and Fragment Transitions
3:58
Four Types of Activity Transitions
2:44
Element Transitions Review
5 questions
Shared Elements
3:46
Shared Element Transistions Recap
0:51
Shared Elements Review
5 questions
Activity Transitions: Advanced Topics
In this stage we are going to learn a few advanced topics about Activity Transitions. Understanding of these techniques is critical to implementing transitions in real world applications.
8 steps
Excluding Targets
3:03
Shared View Overlay
1:22
Use the Overlay for Shared Elements
1 objective
Content Transitions Review
4 questions
Postponed Shared Element Transition
4:01
Postpone a Transition
2 objectives
Using XML to Customize Activity Transitions
5:03
Animations and Transitions Wrap Up
1:57