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Android Animations and Transitions Animations Basics Introducing Android Animations

vicente lee
vicente lee
6,271 Points
Posted by vicente lee
vicente lee
6,271 Points

Animations and Activities

So, I have some activities that do lots of work (not network calls) and was wondering and I'm guessing here, adding animations and transitions will make it even worse for these activities. Is there a way to lighten the work? I'm thinking of using threads, but I've only seen them be used when making network calls, so not sure how to implement multi-threading to handle animations and other work intensive stuff. Any ideas?

kunalshitut
kunalshitut
5,872 Points

There is a very nice treehouse course on using threads and background services. I personally think that animation should be triggered after you have done your performance intensive code and have data. For eg., in an app which fetches data from the network. first get your data while showing your loader and once you have the data then show your animations. This way you wont have to interrupt your animations midway and ruin user experience.