Creating animations using Jetpack Compose
Animations can make your apps livelier and improve the user experience. They can entertain users while content is being fetched or processed. It can guide users on what to do next and can guide them through what steps they can take. Beautiful animations when the app encounters an error can help prevent users from getting angry about what has happened.
Jetpack Compose has built-in APIs that you can use to make animations for your applications.
In the following sections, you will explore some of these animations.
Animating a single value
To animate an individual state change, such as an integer or a color of a composable, you can use various animate*AsState
APIs. You will just need to pass the targetValue
instance that, when changed, will run the animation.
For example, to animate color state changes in a composable, you can use something like the following:
val background by animateColorAsState(
...