Animations with MotionLayout

Creating animations in Android is sometimes time-consuming. You need to work on XML and code files even to create simple animations. More complicated animations and transitions take even more time to make.

To help developers easily make animations, Google created MotionLayout. This is a new way to create motion and animations through XML. It is available starting at API level 14 (Android 4.0).

With MotionLayout, we can animate the position, width/height, visibility, alpha, color, rotation, elevation, and other attributes of one or more views. Normally, some of these are hard to do with code, but MotionLayout allows us to easily adjust them using declarative XML so that we can focus more on our application.

Let’s get started by adding MotionLayout to our application.

Adding MotionLayout

To add MotionLayout to your project, you just need to add the dependency for ConstraintLayout 2.0. ConstraintLayout 2.0 is the new version of ConstraintLayout...