Is there a way to animate `Dialog` ? Like dialog e...

# compose

[Kaustubh Patange]

Is there a way to animate Dialog ? Like dialog enter & exit animation with AnimatedVisibility or something else?

[Ian Lake]

A Dialog is a separate Android Window, which means it doesn't support any kind of Compose driven animations

[Kaustubh Patange]

Yeah but there is still no way to get window from the dialog composable to set some additional properties like enter/exit Transition!

[Dominaezzz]

You probably want a popup instead. Just draw a card above everything with a shadow.

[Colton Idle]

@Dominaezzz is popup a composable or something? Never heard of it? Or are you saying create a popup like this

Box{
MyActualLayout()
MyCustomPopUpWithASemiTransparentBackgroundSoThatItMimicsADialog()
}

[Dominaezzz]

Popup is a desktop composable but it can be emulated like you've done.

[Doris Liu]

You could do something like this: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/182551467#comment5
The idea is to animate the enter/exit of the content of the Popup, so that the container Popup gets a derived animation.

[Doris Liu]

BTW, there's an Android implementation of Popup composable as well: https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:compose/[…]tlin/androidx/compose/ui/window/AndroidPopup.android.kt;l=176