Android Programming Tutorials

Now Your Friends Seem Animated

Figure 45. Patchy with a hidden status entry

Step #3: Fading In and Out

Of course, we have not yet used an animation, which is the point of this

exercise.

First, we need to define our animations. In this case, we will use ones

declared in animation XML files.

Create a Patchy/res/anim directory, then create

Patchy/res/anim/fade_out.xml as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<alpha xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:fromAlpha="1.0"

android:toAlpha="0.0"

android:duration="500" />

Also create Patchy/res/anim/fade_in.xml:

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