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Android Animations in Android 5.0 / AppCompat

View Animation
View animation has never been more fun in Android 4 and above. With Android 5.0 Lollipop, more fun animations can be done by using the ActivityOptions or ActivityOptionsCompat (in AppCompat).

ViewCompat allows you to animate all sorts of animation types with start delays and other neat stuff. One example that returns a ViewPropertyAnimatorCompat object.

 ViewCompat.animate(view).setDuration(1000).scaleYBy(1).scaleXBy(1).start();


View Elevation
We all know that setting elevation is not possible in Android 4.+. You can either apply your own drawable shadow to simulate that effect, or you can use the support library to do the following:

ViewCompat.setElevation(getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.drawable_elevation));


Activity Transitions
If you wanna animate an item only for the activity transition,
a. In Activity A,

ActivityOptionsCompat options =
                ActivityOptionsCompat.makeSceneTransitionAnimation(context,
                        view,
                        R.string.transition_name
                );
        ActivityCompat.startActivity(getActivity(), intent, options.toBundle());


b. In activity B, 

ViewCompat.setTransitionName(view,  getString(R.string.transition_name));


If you wanna animate three things at the same time during activity transitions,
a. In activity A, 

 Pair<View, String> pair1 = Pair.create(view1, getString(R.string.transition1));
Pair<View, String> pair2 = Pair.create(view2, getString(R.string.transition1));
Pair<View, String> pair3 = Pair.create(view3, getString(R.string.transition1));

Pair<View, String>[] pairs = new Pair[]{pair, pair2, pair3};
ActivityOptionsCompat options = ActivityOptionsCompat.makeSceneTransitionAnimation(context, pairs);
                ActivityCompat.startActivity(context, intent, options.toBundle());

b. In Activity B,

ViewCompat.setTransitionName(view1,  getString(R.string.transition_name));
ViewCompat.setTransitionName(view2,  getString(R.string.transition_name));
ViewCompat.setTransitionName(view3,  getString(R.string.transition_name));


This is what I've used so far. Custom animations can be done using ViewCompat, but it's up to you to explore more. I'm still in the middle of exploring as well. Good luck.

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