Alternative to overridePendingTransition() - Android

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I just discovered the android overrivePendingTransition() method. It works fine but I have the following problem : In the Settings/Dislpay menu, you can choose to show no animations, some animations or all animations, and the method only works when it is set to all animations. Can I bypass that ?

Accepted Answer

The settings you're talking about are user preferences. If one of your users wanted to turn off all animations, why would you want to find a workaround to continue showing animations in your app? It doesn't seem very user-friendly.

At any rate, `overridePendingTransition` is used to animate between `Activities`, as opposed to `Views` which is part of why you can turn them off, and was introduced in Android 2.0. There isn't another SDK method available that does the same thing; however, you can try using a `LayoutAnimation` to animate the layout you provide for each `Activity` you're creating. It wouldn't be exactly the same as `overridePendingTransition`, but I think it's going to be one of the closest things you'll find to an alternative.

your_animation.xml:

```
<layoutAnimation xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:animation="@anim/THE_ANIMATION_YOU_WANT_TO_USE" />
```

your_layout.xml:

```
android:layoutAnimation="@anim/your_animation"
```

Alternative to overridePendingTransition() - Android

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