Animations can be both visually appealing and functional, as demonstrated with the simple button press. The graphical representation of the button press brings the app alive, plus it provides a functional value by giving the user a visual response to the event.
The Android Framework provides several animation systems to make it easier to include animations in your own application. They include the following:
- View Animation (the original animation system): It usually requires less code but has limited animation options
- Property Animation: It's a more flexible system, allowing the animation of any property of any object
- Drawable Animation: It uses drawable resources to create frame-by-frame animations (like a movie)
The Property Animation system was introduced in Android 3.0, and it is usually preferred over the View Animation because of the flexibility. The main drawbacks to the View Animation include the following:
- Limited aspects of what can be animated, such as scale and rotation...