I’ve been playing around with `AnimatedContent` for screen transitions and I seem to have hit a road...

# compose

[mp]

I’ve been playing around with AnimatedContent for screen transitions and I seem to have hit a road block. ContentTransform is restricted to fades, slides, and size changes, so I don’t see a way to use this for something more complex that uses child elements. Ex: fade the screen background in, then fade the content in. A more extreme example would be a shared element transition. Is the AnimatedContent API meant to be used for things like this, or is there another more general API that could be used?

[Luis]

You should have a look at Crossfade source, they tween the alpha of both screens, but I recon you could change the animation to be whatever you want

https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/tools/dokka-devsite-plugin/+/master:testDat[…]ompose/animation/Crossfade.kt?q=lang:kotlin%20usage:Crossfade

[mp]

Hmm, yeah. Crossfade doesn’t seem like a very complex starting point for building my own thing. I’m still curious to hear if there’s something else that I can use as is, either now or coming soon.

[Albert Chang]

You have a AnimatedVisibilityScope in AnimatedContent and there is a transition property. You can use that to create custom animations.

[Colton Idle]

Just came here to say I really enjoyed your droidcon talks Matt. I learned a ton from them. Thank you!

[Marko Novakovic]

so AnimatedContent is THE api for screen transition animation? or you are just trying to implement it that way and TransitionAnimation will come before stable release?

[Albert Chang]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1622837748387100?thread_ts=1622826627.373900&cid=CJLTWPH7S

[Marko Novakovic]

thank you very much

[mp]

Hmm, ok. Found some more docs. You’re suggesting I use transition like so? https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/animation/EnterExitState

[mp]

that looks promising. thanks!