There are actually two types of animations you are talking about here: - View animations are like the one in the calculator switching panels. These happen entirely within the view hierarchy of your app, and must have been started by your app, so you can just poke anything related to the animation in your view hierarchy to see what is going on, including the Animation object itself.
- Window animations are like the soft keyboard animation. There are performed entirely by the window manager, purely through moving window surfaces around, and so are not directly accessible to you. The only information you have about them is any impact the relayout of the windows has on your app, such as the keyboard causing your view hierarchy to resize, and this is not done as an animation but as a single update giving you the ultimately final new layout (whether this happens at the start or end of the animation depends on how the window manager wants to do this to try to best keep the screen looking nice). There is a small final thing that can happen, for non-resizeable windows, when the IME is shown and the window is given the update to account for it, internally the window will scroll itself into place instead of jumping. There is very little visibility you have into this, though, except for repeated draws of the view hierarchy (at the same location since it is just offsetting your drawing). On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Sam <sam.quir...@windriver.com> wrote: > > How can we detect that an animation is currently going on? An example > would be in the calculator app when you click on the "advanced panel" > menu, a new keyboard slides (animates) into place. As soon as you > click a key on this keyboard, it slides (animate) back out of view. > We have not found a way programmatically to detect either that an > animation is underway or that it has finished. Another example is > when you click in an EditText view causing the soft keyboard to slide > (animate) into view and possibly push up (animate) the EditText view. > > We see there are flag settings, ANIMATION_STARTED and DRAW_ANIMATION, > for View.mPrivateFlags. But in situations where we dump the views > while we know an animation is going on, we have never seen these flags > set for the views that we think are moving as part of an animation. > Should they be? Are there other flags or other values we should be > examining to detect animations? > > Our goal, for example, is to programmatically click an EditText box > and then be able to repeatedly examine the views to find out "has the > soft keyboard finished it's animation into place?" > > We've tried putting in delays, but the delay time required is a > function of the load on the computer running the phone/emulator. > > -Sam > > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" group. To post to this group, send email to android-framework@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-framework+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
