Google I/O 2024: Shared Ingredient Transitions in Jetpack Compose

Google I/O 2024 launched so many thrilling new applied sciences, particularly Gemini AI and Jetpack Compose. Although Jetpack Compose is superior and bettering quickly to meet up with the legacy XML-based layouts (which have been on the market for ages), it fell quick in some areas, resembling animations.

Shared Ingredient Transitions are among the many hottest APIs from the Android Animation Framework, which wasn’t obtainable within the Jetpack Compose till now. That’s proper – Google launched shared aspect transitions for Jetpack Compose at their 2024 I/O occasion!

This long-awaited characteristic helps you create lovely, fluid animations when navigating between screens in your app. Think about a consumer tapping a picture in an inventory, and it easily expands and animates into the detailed view. Shared aspect transitions in Compose present a declarative strategy to obtain this impact, supplying you with extra management over the animation course of than the standard View system. This empowers builders to design seamless consumer experiences that improve their apps’ total feel and look.

Listed below are a number of the key capabilities of Shared Ingredient Transitions in Jetpack Compose launched at Google I/O 2024:

• Declarative Animation: Shared aspect transitions are outlined declaratively utilizing modifiers like Modifier.sharedElement and Modifier.sharedBoundsMatchingContentSize. This animation course of is way easier in comparison with the crucial method required within the View system.
• Finer Management: Compose supplies extra granular management over the animation in comparison with conventional strategies. You may outline the particular aspect to animate, its transition bounds, and even the animation sort.
• Seamless Integration With Navigation: Shared aspect transitions work easily with Navigation Compose. When navigating between screens, you may cross the aspect’s key as an argument, and Compose robotically matches parts and creates the animation.

Getting Began

To make the most of the most recent APIs, be sure to’re utilizing the most recent Android Studio Jellyfish | 2023.3.1 and API Stage 34.

Click on the Obtain Supplies button on the prime or backside of this tutorial. Unzip the ComposeTransitionAnimation.zip folder.

Now, launch Android Studio and open ComposeTransitionAnimation-Starter to import the starter undertaking. The ComposeTransitionAnimation-Starter undertaking accommodates the mandatory boilerplates and Composables to leap straight into the animation!

ComposeTransitionAnimation-Starter resembles an e-commerce app with a primary Listing-Element format.

Construct and run the app – it’ll appear like this:

On this article, you’ll create a visible connection between parts on Listing and Element screens utilizing Shared Ingredient Transition.

First, add the most recent model of Compose dependencies. Open construct.gradle in your app module and replace:

def composeVersion = "1.7.0-beta01"

Faucet Sync Now to obtain the dependencies.

Be aware: Shared aspect assist is experimental and is in `beta`. The APIs might change sooner or later.

Overview of Key APIs

The most recent dependencies launched a number of high-level APIs that do the heavy lifting of sharing parts between Composable layouts:

• SharedTransitionLayout: The highest-level format required to implement shared aspect transitions. It supplies a SharedTransitionScope. A Composable must be in SharedTransitionScope to make use of the modifiers of shared parts.
• Modifier.sharedElement(): The modifier to flag one Composable to be matched with one other Composable throughout the SharedTransitionScope.
• Modifier.sharedBounds(): The modifier that tells the SharedTransitionScope to make use of this Composable’s bounds because the container bounds for the place the transition ought to happen.

You’ll quickly create a hero-animation utilizing these APIs.

Implementing Shared Transition Animation

A Shared Transition Animation, or hero-animation, contains three main steps:

1. Wrapping taking part views with SharedTransitionLayout.
2. Defining SharedTransitionScope to the supply and vacation spot views.
3. Transition with Shared Ingredient.

Including SharedTransitionLayout

Open the MainActivity class. It accommodates ListScreen and DetailScreen, which can share parts throughout a transition animation. As talked about earlier, it’s essential to wrap them with SharedTransitionLayout to make them eligible for a Shared Transition Animation.

Replace the AnimatedContent block as follows:

SharedTransitionLayout {
  AnimatedContent(
    targetState = showDetails, 
    label = "shared_transition"
  ) { shouldShowDetails ->
    if (!shouldShowDetails) {
      ListScreen(
        // Present code
        ... ... ...
      )
    } else {
      DetailScreen(
        // Present code
        ... ... ...
       )
     }
  }
}

At this level, you may even see this warning from Android Studio for utilizing an experimental api:

To resolve this, add these imports on prime of the MainActivity:

import androidx.compose.animation.ExperimentalSharedTransitionApi
import androidx.compose.animation.SharedTransitionLayout

Then add this annotation over the onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) technique:

@OptIn(ExperimentalSharedTransitionApi::class)

Construct and run.

Defining SharedTransitionScope

Up subsequent, it is advisable outline SharedTransitionScope to the views taking part within the transition animation. The Composable must be inside SharedTransitionScope to make use of Modifier.sharedElement() for the animation. Therefore, you’ll have to cross down SharedTransitionScope from SharedTransitionLayout in MainActivity to the supply and vacation spot Composable executing the animation.

On this case, you’ll transition from the smaller Picture Composable within the ListScreen (supply) to the bigger Composable in DetailScreen (vacation spot).

Begin with ListScreen.kt inside ui package deal. Replace the ListScreen operate with these parameters:

@Composable
enjoyable ListScreen(
  paddingValues: PaddingValues,
  objects: Listing,
  onItemClicked: (Merchandise) -> Unit = {},
  sharedTransitionScope: SharedTransitionScope,
  animatedVisibilityScope: AnimatedVisibilityScope,
)

Then cross the sharedTransitionScope and animatedVisibilityScope references for every ListItem:

objects.forEach { merchandise ->
  ListItem(
    merchandise = merchandise,
    onItemClicked = onItemClicked,
    sharedTransitionScope = sharedTransitionScope,
    animatedVisibilityScope = animatedVisibilityScope,
  )
}

Additionally, replace th eListItem Composable technique signature accordingly:

@Composable
enjoyable ListItem(
  merchandise: Merchandise,
  onItemClicked: (Merchandise) -> Unit = {},
  sharedTransitionScope: SharedTransitionScope,
  animatedVisibilityScope: AnimatedVisibilityScope,
)

You’ll see the warning for utilizing an experimental api once more from the compiler, together with the errors for the lacking imports.

Fret not! Add these imports on prime:

import androidx.compose.animation.AnimatedVisibilityScope
import androidx.compose.animation.ExperimentalSharedTransitionApi
import androidx.compose.animation.SharedTransitionScope

And the annotation for the ListScreen.kt file, above of the package deal identify like this:

@file:OptIn(ExperimentalSharedTransitionApi::class)

package deal com.kodeco.android.composetransition.ui

That ensures you could have all the mandatory imports and can mute warnings for utilizing experimental APIs for the scope of the ListScreen.kt file.

Be aware: Add the imports and annotation on DetailScreen.kt, too. You’ll want them shortly!

Your vacation spot Composable is the DetailScreen technique. Now add animation scopes as technique parameters as follows:

@Composable
enjoyable DetailScreen(
  merchandise: Merchandise, onBack: () -> Unit,
  sharedTransitionScope: SharedTransitionScope,
  animatedVisibilityScope: AnimatedVisibilityScope,
)

You’re able to wire up ListScreen and DetailScreen to carry out the transition animation.

Open MainActivity and replace SharedTransitionLayout block to cross animatedVisibilityScope and sharedTransitionScope to its descendants:

SharedTransitionLayout {
  AnimatedContent(
    targetState = showDetails, 
    label = "shared_transition"
  ) { shouldShowDetails ->
    if (!shouldShowDetails) {
      ListScreen(
        paddingValues = paddingValues,
        objects = objects.worth,
        onItemClicked = { merchandise ->
          detailItem = merchandise
          showDetails = !showDetails
        },
        animatedVisibilityScope = this@AnimatedContent,
        sharedTransitionScope = this@SharedTransitionLayout,
      )
    } else {
      DetailScreen(
        merchandise = detailItem,
        onBack = { showDetails = !showDetails },
        animatedVisibilityScope = this@AnimatedContent,
        sharedTransitionScope = this@SharedTransitionLayout,
      )
    }
  }
}

Construct and run once more to make sure you resolved all compilation errors, however don’t count on the animation to occur but!