You're reading from Android Programming for Beginners Learn all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785883262

Length 698 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Authors (2):

Paresh Mayani

John Horton

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Table of Contents (32) Chapters

Preface

1. The First App FREE CHAPTER

2. Java – First Contact

3. Exploring Android Studio

4. Designing Layouts

5. Real-World Layouts

6. The Life and Times of an Android App

7. Coding in Java Part 1 – Variables, Decisions, and Loops

8. Coding in Java Part 2 – Methods

9. Object-Oriented Programming

10. Everything's a Class

11. Widget Mania

12. Having a Dialogue with the User

13. Handling and Displaying Arrays of Data

14. Handling and Displaying Notes in Note To Self

15. Android Intent and Persistence

16. UI Animations

17. Sound FX and Supporting Different Versions of Android

18. Design Patterns, Fragments, and the Real World

19. Using Multiple Fragments

20. Paging and Swiping

21. Navigation Drawer and Where It's Snap

22. Capturing Images

23. Using SQLite Databases in Our Apps

24. Adding a Database to Where It's Snap

25. Integrating Google Maps and GPS Locations

26. Upgrading SQLite – Adding Locations and Maps

27. Going Local – Hola!

28. Threads, Touches, Drawing, and a Simple Game

29. Publishing Apps

30. Before You Go

Index

Chapter 16. UI Animations

In this chapter, we will see how to use the Animation class to make our UI more mobile and interesting. As we have come to expect, and the Animation class is no different, the Android API will allow us to do some quite advanced things with relatively straightforward code.

This chapter can be approximately divided into these topics:

An introduction to how animations in Android work and are implemented
An introduction to a new UI widget: SeekBar
A working animated mini app
Adding simple, pleasing animations to the Note To Self app

First, let's see how do animations in Android work?

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