How to switch activity without animation in Android?

Question

How can I use properly the Intent flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION in AndroidManifest file? I supose my problem is trivial, but I can't find good example or solution to it.

    <intent-filter>         <data android:name="android.content.Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION" />     </intent-filter> 

However no error is reported by compliator, but data isn't correct. I just want to disable animation in case switching between activities. I can use getWindow().setWindowAnimations(0); in onCreate or onResume rather but using flag is better way, isn't it?

I can use also in code:

    Intent intent = new Intent(v.getContext(), newactivity.class);     intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);     getContext().startActivity(intent); 

But I want to use this flag in Android Manifest. To disable animation also in case returning from second activity to first.

Answer 1

You can create a style,

 <style name="noAnimTheme" parent="android:Theme">    <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@null</item> </style> 

and set it as theme for your activity in the manifest:

   <activity android:name=".ui.ArticlesActivity" android:theme="@style/noAnimTheme">     </activity> 

You can also define a style to specify custom entry and exit animations. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html#windowEnterAnimation

Answer 2

If your context is an activity you can call overridePendingTransition:

Call immediately after one of the flavors of startActivity(Intent) or finish to specify an explicit transition animation to perform next.

So, programmatically:

this.startActivity(new Intent(v.getContext(), newactivity.class)); this.overridePendingTransition(0, 0);