Jérémie Laval shows how you can fall in love with Android animations and how you can get your users to fall head over heels for your Mono for Android apps.

1. Xamarin
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Introduction to Android Animations
14th February 2013

2. Agenda
Introduction to Android Animations
Jérémie Laval
Xamarin Engineer
jeremie.laval@xamarin.com
@jeremie_laval
http://blog.neteril.org
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3. Foreword
“The best UI animations are the
ones your users don't notice
because they feel natural”
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4. Android Animation APIs
1. View Animations
2. Property Animations
3. Layout animations
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5. View Animations
-Pre-Android 3.0
-Only on View
-Limited range of effect
-Simple and straightforward
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6. Property Animations
-New in Android 3.1
-Generalized framework for animations
-Custom property support
-Complete instrumentation API
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7. Layout animations
-Easy to use ( just add android:animateLayoutChanges="true" )
-Fade in/Fade out + Slide in/Slide out
effects
-Nice for transition between element
states
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8. In Conclusion
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9. Resources
- Sticky GUIs: http://parleys.com/#st=5&id=2897
- Android Developers DevBytes
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc_XOgcRukSoKKjewFJZrKV0
- Android API Guide: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/
index.html
- Our Xamarin docs: http://docs.xamarin.com/android/Recipes/Other_UX/
Animation
- Android tricks series on Xamarin blog: http://blog.xamarin.com
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14th February 2013