Activity transitions

Activity transitions in material design apps provide visual connections between different states through motion and transformations between common elements. You can specify custom animations for enter and exit transitions and for transitions of shared elements between activities.

Android supports these enter and exit transitions:

• explode - Moves views in or out from the center of the scene.

• slide - Moves views in or out from one of the edges of the scene.

• fade - Adds or removes a view from the scene by changing its opacity.

We are going to use the shared elements transitions, which determines how an activity’s shared elements are animated between two activities.

The shared elements are also called hero views.