Shared Transition Animation Android

One of the more simple animations that can be done in Android is the shared transition animation. It is very effective and simple to achieve ,below we show you how to get this done with only a few lines of code where necessary.

[1]  Edit your Window Transitions

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>

    <item name="android:windowContentTransitions">true</item>
</style>

[2]Create  2 separate elements of equal view types within 2 layouts

and give the both the property of android:transitionName="yourtransitionname"

android:transitionName="yourtransitionname"

[3]

var actcomp= ActivityOptionsCompat.makeSceneTransitionAnimation(this,imz, "yourtransitionname")




[4]send the animation on with the start of the next activity

startActivity(inz,actcomp.toBundle())

The video below when fully explained what is necessary to create this transition