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Siva Prakash
Siva Prakash

Reputation: 4997

Custom Activity transition when up button is pressed

Whenever I press the up button from my current activity, parent fragment slides in towards the left from the right edge, which seems to be the default transition behavior.But i want the parent activity to slide in rightwards from the left edge.

I already used onBackPressed with overridePendingTransition and custom transition xml files but my onBackPressed is never called.

Here is my java code.

public class TakeOrderItems extends AppCompatActivity {

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_take_order_items);

    //Get the actionbar to set the back button
    ActionBar ab = getSupportActionBar();
    ab.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

/* 
  CODE TO CREATE AND DISPLAY EXPANDABLELISTVIEW
                                               */


@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    super.onBackPressed();
    Log.i("Good","back pressed");
    overridePendingTransition(R.transition.slide_in,R.transition.slide_out);
}

XML transition files

slide_in.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<translate
    android:fromXDelta="-100%"
    android:toXDelta="0"
    android:duration="200" />
</set>

slide_out.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<translate
    android:fromXDelta="0"
    android:toXDelta="100%"
    android:duration="200" />
</set>

I have checked many answers but they seems to be confusing and contradictory.I think there must be an elegant and efficient way to achieve this since many many apps use this.Please please help me.Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 468

Answers (2)

Marc Plano-Lesay
Marc Plano-Lesay

Reputation: 6968

The Up navigation button is handled by onOptionsItemSelected. So override it:

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case android.R.id.home:
            finish();
            return true;
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

Note that this onOptionsItemSelected implementation assumes that your parent activity is already started, and is the next one on your backstack. You'll may want to start it in addition to finish the current one.

Override the finish method of your Activity to set the transition:

@Override
public void finish() {
    super.finish();
    overridePendingTransition(R.anim.slide_in, R.anim.slide_out);
}

Also, it looks like you're confused by the overridePendingTransition method name. It takes animations as parameters, not transitions.

This would be your slide_in equivalent:

<set
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:shareInterpolator="false">

  <translate
    android:fromXDelta="-100%"
    android:toXDelta="0%"
    android:duration="200"/>

</set>

And the slide_out:

<set
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:shareInterpolator="false">

  <translate
    android:fromXDelta="100%"
    android:toXDelta="200%"
    android:duration="200"/>

</set>

Just put those files in res/anim instead of res/transition.

Upvotes: 0

Akshay Panchal
Akshay Panchal

Reputation: 695

Put overridePendingTransition above call super.onBackPressed() it must work

Upvotes: 1

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