Are you referring to a multi-pane layout with multiple fragments?

On Friday, April 20, 2012 2:25:16 PM UTC+8, Jon Perlow wrote:
>
> I'm trying to improve the transition of an Activity containing a ListView 
> that navigates to another Activity containing a ListView when the user 
> selects an item. 
>
> In ICS, the holo theme has a list selector that has a very nice fade-out 
> transition. Maybe I am just doing something stupid, but AFAICT, the problem 
> with this is that only a toy app could really make that transition work 
> under Android's UI architecture. In order for the animation to be smooth, 
> let's assume it needs a 25 fps draw rate. Drawing in android requires the 
> UI thread. that means you can't block the UI thread for more than 40ms for 
> that animation to render smoothly. In the scenario where clicking on a list 
> item navigates to another activity, it requires that the other activity 
> finish its onCreate, onStart, onResume, the measuring and layout of all its 
> views in less than 40ms. 
>
> Is this really possible for any real application? I noticed that most of 
> the apps that come with Android are not using this transition. AFAICT, the 
> Gmail app doesn't use it nor does the SMS app or the contacts app. There 
> are a few apps that do use it like the preferences and the transitions are 
> extremely choppy.
>
> -Jon
>

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