Android - what is the right way to implement a wizard with an animation between the steps

Question

I'm building and Android app that needs to go through steps like a wizard.

Current structure:

At the moment I'm using one activity with separate views.xml for each step, then I'm using setContentView(activeStep) to display the active step.

I ran into some difficulties when trying to animate between the steps. I used the following code:

LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
View view = inflater.inflate(activeStep, null, false);
view.startAnimation(AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(activity, R.anim.slide_in));
setContentView(view);

The result: the first view was gone and the new one animated, not a smooth transition.

My goal is to animate both views, one slides out the other in.

Question: Is it possible to do it with my current structure (reminder: one activity, many views) or should I treat each step as a separate activity?

Answer 1

I guess there is more the one way of implementing step progress with animation, here is how I did it:

private static ViewAnimator viewAnimator;

 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        viewAnimator = new ViewAnimator(this);
        View step1 = View.inflate(activity, R.layout.step_1, null);
        View step2 = View.inflate(activity, R.layout.step_2, null);
        View step3 = View.inflate(activity, R.layout.step_3, null);
        viewAnimator.addView(step1);
        viewAnimator.addView(step2);
        viewAnimator.addView(step3);
        viewAnimator.setInAnimation(activity, R.anim.slide_in);
        viewAnimator.setOutAnimation(activity, R.anim.slide_out);
        setContentView(viewAnimator);
    }

then clicking a button I call viewAnimator.showNext() and viewAnimator.showPrevious() ViewSwitcher was not good for my purpose, because it can hold only 2 views at a time