Android 3.0 Animations: Beginner’s Guide

Book Description

Bring your Android applications to life with stunning animations.

• The first and only book dedicated to creating animations for Android apps.
• Covers all of the commonly used animation techniques for Android 3.0 and lower versions.
• Create stunning animations to give your Android apps a fun and intuitive user experience.
• A step-by-step guide for learning animation by building fun example applications and games.

In Detail

An enjoyable, understandable, and eye-catching user interface is a key part of getting users to love your app. Users today expect a polished multimedia experience on their mobile device, and animation is a core part of that. The Android operating system is at the forefront of tablet and smartphone technology, and there is a plethora of opportunities for developing exciting applications with animation.

Android 3.0 Animations Beginner’s Guide will introduce each of the most popular animation techniques to you. Using step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to create interactive dynamic forms, moving graphics, and 3D motion.

You will be taken on a journey from simple stop motion animations and fades, through to moving input forms, then on to 3D motion and game graphics.

In this book, you will create standalone animated graphics, three-dimensional lifts, fades, and spins. You will become adept at moving and transforming form data to bring boring old input forms and displays to life. Learn how game programmers create fast animations on the fly, and also build live wallpapers to liven up your users’ home-screens!

If you are tired of writing lifeless interfaces and want to add some animated excitement, this is the book for you!

A step-by step guide for creating, testing, and making use of stunning animations for android applications and games.

What you will learn from this book

• Create animated graphics from a set of still images
• Fade between graphical elements
• Move, distort, and generally mess around with parts of your user interface
• Create Dazzling 3D motion with a few simple principles
• Strip back the Android user interface to create fast animated graphics on the fly
• Experience striking results by changing your animation’s rhythm
• Create a live wallpaper to bring motion to your home-screen
• Design your animations to look great and work well on different Android devices

Approach

Written in Packt’s Beginner’s Guide series, this book takes a step-by-step approach with each chapter made up of three to five tutorials that introduce and explain different animation concepts. All concepts are explained with real-world examples that are fun to read and work with.

Who this book is written for

If you are familiar with developing Android applications and want to bring your apps to life by adding smashing animations, then this book is for you. The book assumes that you are comfortable with Java development and have familiarity with creating Android Views in XML and Java. The tutorials assume that you will want to work with Eclipse, but you can work just as well with your preferred development tools.

中文：

书名：Android 3.0动画：初学者指南

用令人惊叹的动画让您的Android应用程序栩栩如生。

• 第一本也是唯一一本致力于为Android应用程序创建动画的书。
• 涵盖了Android 3.0及更低版本的所有常用动画技术。
• 创建令人惊叹的动画，为您的Android应用程序提供有趣和直观的用户体验。
• 通过构建有趣的示例应用程序和游戏学习动画的分步指南。

详细地说

一个令人愉快、易于理解和引人注目的用户界面是让用户喜欢你的应用程序的关键部分。今天的用户希望在他们的移动设备上获得完美的多媒体体验，而动画是其中的核心部分。Android操作系统处于平板电脑和智能手机技术的前沿，开发具有动画效果的令人兴奋的应用程序的机会太多了。

Android 3.0动画初学者指南将向您介绍每一种最流行的动画技术。使用分步说明，您将学习如何创建交互式动态表单、移动图形和3D运动。

您将从简单的定格动画和淡入淡出，到移动的输入表单，然后再到3D运动和游戏图形。

在本书中，您将创建独立的动画图形、三维升降、淡入淡出和旋转。您将熟练地移动和转换表单数据，使乏味的旧输入表单和显示栩栩如生。了解游戏程序员如何在运行中创建快速动画，以及如何构建实时墙纸来活跃用户的主屏幕！

如果你厌倦了编写枯燥乏味的界面，并想增加一些动感刺激，这本书就是为你准备的！

为Android应用程序和游戏创建、测试和使用令人惊叹的动画的分步指南。

What you will learn from this book

• 从一组静止图像创建动画图形
• 在图形元素之间淡入淡出
• Move, distort, and generally mess around with parts of your user interface
• 用几个简单的原则创建令人眼花缭乱的3D运动
• 剥离Android用户界面，动态创建快速动画图形
• 通过改变动画的节奏来体验惊人的效果
• 制作一张活动墙纸，为您的主屏幕带来动感
• 让你的动画看起来很棒，在不同的安卓设备上都能很好地工作

方法

这本书以Packt&#8217；的入门指南系列编写，采用循序渐进的方法，每章由三到五个教程组成，介绍和解释不同的动画概念。所有的概念都是用真实世界的例子解释的，阅读和使用起来都很有趣。

这本书是为谁写的

如果你熟悉开发Android应用程序，并想通过添加精彩的动画来让你的应用程序栩栩如生，那么这本书就是为你准备的。本书假定您熟悉Java开发，并且熟悉用XML和Java创建Android视图。这些教程假定您想要使用Eclipse，但是您也可以使用您喜欢的开发工具。