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September 12, 2024 59 mins

In this episode Chet, Romain and Tor chat with Doris Liu from the Compose team about animations in Compose -- covering everything from the basic primitives up to the recently added Shared Element Transitions.

 

Chapters:
Intro (00:00)
Animation capabilities of Compose (1:06)
Different types of animation specs (3:43)
Layers of functionality, transitions (7:49)
TargetBasedAnimation (9:48)
Vectors & velocity of color change (12:43)
Second layer parallel to animation spec (16:39)
Animation interruptions (18:48)
Motion layout problem-solving (20:19)
Both scale and move in question (25:45)
Different mental models for layout animation in Compose vs. View (26:20)
Shared element (31:05)
Are there things you wish more people were aware of? (34:19)
What's the tooling story for this? (41:57)
What is Look Ahead? (43:16)
All software is regret (48:49)
New API: Modifier.animateBounds (51:52)
How to reach Doris – leave a comment (55:57)
Motion Frame of Reference Placement (57:29)
Wrap up (59:10)

Links:
Shared element tutorial → https://goo.gle/3XrGYp5 
Shared element talk → https://goo.gle/47tm3qm 
A quick guide to compose animations → https://goo.gle/3Tm853p 
The API layers except the highest level APIs we chatted about in the podcast → https://goo.gle/3MGsiNE

Doris: @doris4lt

Romain: @romainguythreads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Chet: @chethaasethreads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social  

Catch more Android Developers Backstage on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast   
Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs 

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