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Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Rick Boyer
Book Image

Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Rick Boyer

Overview of this book

The Android OS has the largest installation base of any operating system in the world. There has never been a better time to learn Android development to write your own applications, or to make your own contributions to the open source community! With this extensively updated cookbook, you'll find solutions for working with the user interfaces, multitouch gestures, location awareness, web services, and device features such as the phone, camera, and accelerometer. You also get useful steps on packaging your app for the Android Market. Each recipe provides a clear solution and sample code you can use in your project from the outset. Whether you are writing your first app or your hundredth, this is a book that you will come back to time and time again, with its many tips and tricks on the rich features of Android Pie.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating a Card Flip Animation with Fragments


The card flip is a common animation that we will demonstrate using fragment transitions. We'll use two different images, one for the front and one for the back, to create the card flip effect. We'll need four animation resources, two for the front and two for the back transitions, which we will define in XML using objectAnimator.

Here's a screenshot of the application we'll build showing the Card Flip Animation in action:

Getting ready

Create a new project in Android Studio and call it CardFlip. Use the default Phone & Tablet options and select Empty Activity when prompted for the Activity Type.

For the front and back images of the playing card, we found the following images on www.pixabay.com:

How to do it...

We'll need two fragments: one for the front of the card and the other for the back. Each fragment will define the image...