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Nico
Nico

Reputation: 1191

Easy way to recreate windows phone system app animations?

I really like the way the system applications (People, messages, mail, music+video, etc) are animated on transitions. So in my app, I'd like to use the same style so that it blends in better with the whole phone (plus they just look pretty). I've been poking around in the silverlight toolkit for a while trying to find preset animations I could use to do this, but I'm having trouble finding the same ones.

More specifically, I'm having trouble finding the equivalent to the 'slide/ pivot' animation you can see when you select a contact from your contact list (and in a hundred other places).

Are these animations available somewhere as a preset? Or do I have to try to make them myself by using a storyboard?

I don't know that much about silverlight animations, so I'm trying to avoid having to learn, but if I really have to so be it.

Thanks for any help!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 685

Answers (1)

Robaticus
Robaticus

Reputation: 23157

You can easily get these transitions from the Silverlight Toolkit. http://silverlight.codeplex.com

Also, here's a quick guide for implementing them: http://codifying.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/wp7-how-to-create-beautiful-page-transition-in-5-minutes/

Upvotes: 3

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