In my android app, I'm making a method that pop all activities and bring up the first activity.
I use this code:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, MMConnection.class);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
this.startActivity(intent);
As I noticed that the transition was still a left to right animation, does someone know if there is a way to change system animation when starting an activity?
Actually, I'd ideally like to have a right to left transition (like when the return button is tapped)
thanks for help!
CoolMcGrr is right, you want to use overridePendingTransition(int enterAnim, int exitAnim)
.
To specifically get the standard "back button" transition, I use these as the enterAnim
and exitAnim
transitions:
push_right_in.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<translate android:fromXDelta="-100%p" android:toXDelta="0" android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime"/>
<alpha android:fromAlpha="0.0" android:toAlpha="1.0" android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime" />
</set>
push_right_out.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<translate android:fromXDelta="0" android:toXDelta="100%p" android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime"/>
<alpha android:fromAlpha="1.0" android:toAlpha="0.0" android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime" />
</set>
You should take a look Activity.overridePendingTransition().
Of course, this requires that you run at least version 2.0 of the SDK.
Problem occurs nowadays because pre-ICS and ICS have different built-in activity transitions.
This is much cleaner than defining your own animation and SDK independant:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, MMConnection.class);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP|Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);
this.startActivity(intent);
finish();
This will start the activity (not visible yet) and play the "activity finish" transition to the new activity.
I used this code:
overridePendingTransition(android.R.anim.fade_in, android.R.anim.fade_out);
You can see these examples in GmailAnimation or LopeAnimations. Also you can see more in this Blog.