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htafoya
htafoya

Reputation: 19273

Android - Remove the 'flash' animation between Activities

I want to better the user experience of my app.

I have an Activity which takes a time to load, so I am creating like a fake screen before the actual screen is loaded.

The fake screen should look exactly like the new screen so that the change is not visible.

However, Android is making a "flashy" transition between the two activities, which results in a worse experience. This transition sometimes depends on the phone model.

Is there a way to prevent any kind of animation and just display the activity contents without transition or flash (black or white) ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3129

Answers (3)

emmgfx
emmgfx

Reputation: 575

Try with this in your xml theme:

<item name="android:windowBackground">@color/black</item>
<item name="android:colorBackground">@color/black</item>

Changing the color with the color that you want.

Upvotes: 2

user4774371
user4774371

Reputation:

Try something like this, overridePendingTransition(0, 0) will force device to not use any animation for transition.

Intent intent = new Intent(SplashActivity.this, ChatActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
overridePendingTransition(0, 0);

Upvotes: 0

ToasteR
ToasteR

Reputation: 888

Create a custom style which disables the animation:

<style name="noAnimation" parent="android:Theme">
   <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@null</item>
</style>

And set it for your activities in the AndroidManifest.xml file:

<activity android:name=".YourActivity" android:theme="@style/noAnimation">
</activity>

or set it for your whole application:

<application android:theme="@style/noAnimation">

Upvotes: 3

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