How to switch activity without animation in Android?

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woyaru picture woyaru · Aug 7, 2011 · Viewed 130.9k times · Source

How can I use properly the Intent flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION in AndroidManifest file? I supose my problem is trivial, but I can't find good example or solution to it.

    <intent-filter>
        <data android:name="android.content.Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION" />
    </intent-filter>

However no error is reported by compliator, but data isn't correct. I just want to disable animation in case switching between activities. I can use getWindow().setWindowAnimations(0); in onCreate or onResume rather but using flag is better way, isn't it?

I can use also in code:

    Intent intent = new Intent(v.getContext(), newactivity.class);
    intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);
    getContext().startActivity(intent);

But I want to use this flag in Android Manifest. To disable animation also in case returning from second activity to first.

Answer

Santosh picture Santosh · Feb 16, 2012

You can create a style, 

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

and set it as theme for your activity in the manifest:

   <activity android:name=".ui.ArticlesActivity" android:theme="@style/noAnimTheme">
    </activity>

You can also define a style to specify custom entry and exit animations. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html#windowEnterAnimation

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