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Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

You're reading from  Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788991216
Pages 464 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rick Boyer Rick Boyer
Profile icon Rick Boyer

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Activities Layouts Views, Widgets, and Styles Menus and Action Mode Fragments Home Screen Widgets, Search, and the System UI Data Storage Alerts and Notifications Using the Touchscreen and Sensors Graphics and Animation A First Look at OpenGL ES Multimedia Telephony, Networks, and the Web Location and Using Geofencing Getting Your App Ready for the Play Store Getting Started with Kotlin Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Creating a Card Flip Animation with Fragments


The card flip is a common animation that we will demonstrate using fragment transitions. We'll use two different images, one for the front and one for the back, to create the card flip effect. We'll need four animation resources, two for the front and two for the back transitions, which we will define in XML using objectAnimator.

Here's a screenshot of the application we'll build showing the Card Flip Animation in action:

Getting ready

Create a new project in Android Studio and call it CardFlip. Use the default Phone & Tablet options and select Empty Activity when prompted for the Activity Type.

For the front and back images of the playing card, we found the following images on www.pixabay.com:

How to do it...

We'll need two fragments: one for the front of the card and the other for the back. Each fragment will define the image...

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