Performing action after fragment transaction animation is finished

Question

I want to set a buttons visibility after the animation is finished.

That's what calls the animation:

android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction fAnimation = this.getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
fAnimation.setCustomAnimations(android.R.anim.slide_in_left, R.anim.pull_out_to_left);
if (this.isVisible()) {
    fAnimation.hide(this);
    fAnimation.commit();
}

// code that will be executed when the fragment is gone (after the animation is over)

Is there any way to attach a listener to know when my fragment is gone?

Answer 1

The Animators that @nmw implements in his answer were added in API Level 11 and will not work with Fragments as implemented by the Android support library.

To listen to Fragment animation events, I extended the support library's Fragment class and overrode onCreateAnimation, attaching a custom AnimationListener to the returned Animation object:

public class MyFragment extends android.support.v4.app.Fragment {

    private static final String TAG = "MyFragment";

    @Override
    public Animation onCreateAnimation(int transit, boolean enter, int nextAnim) {

        Animation anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getActivity(), nextAnim);

        anim.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {

            @Override
            public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
                Log.d(TAG, "Animation started.");
                // additional functionality 
            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
                Log.d(TAG, "Animation repeating.");
                // additional functionality
            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
                Log.d(TAG, "Animation ended.");
                // additional functionality
            }
        });

        return anim;
    }
}

Answer 2

You need to subclass Fragment and override onCreateAnimator, then you can load those animations from XML and attach listeners to them.

E.g.

public class MyFragment extends Fragment
{
    @Override
    public Animator onCreateAnimator(int transit, boolean enter, int nextAnim)
    {
        final int animatorId = (enter) ? R.anim.in_anim : R.anim.out_anim;
        final Animator anim = AnimatorInflater.loadAnimator(getActivity(), animatorId);
        anim.addListener(new AnimatorListenerAdapter()
        {
            @Override
            public void onAnimationStart(Animator animation)
            {
                ...
            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation)
            {
               ...
            }
        });

        return anim;
   }    

Answer 3

Combining the answers above here is a sample I am using successfully with the support library fragments.

Simply extend the MenuFragment and set the listener to get a callback of what to execute afterwards.

public class MenuFragment extends Fragment {

private WeakReference<OnMenuClosedListener> onMenuClosedListener;

@Override
public Animation onCreateAnimation(int transit, boolean enter, int nextAnim) {
    Animation anim = null;
    if (enter) {
        anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getActivity(), R.anim.anim_slide_in_top);
    } else {
        anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getActivity(), R.anim.anim_menu_slide_out_top);
        anim.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {
            @Override public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
            }
            @Override public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
            }
            @Override public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
                onMenuClosed();
            }
        });
    }

    // NOTE: the animation must be added to an animation set in order for the listener
    // to work on the exit animation
    AnimationSet animSet = new AnimationSet(true);
    animSet.addAnimation(anim);

    return animSet;
}

private void onMenuClosed() {
    if (this.onMenuClosedListener != null) {
        OnMenuClosedListener listener = this.onMenuClosedListener.get();
        if (listener != null) {
            listener.onMenuClosed();
        }
    }
}

public void setOnMenuClosedListener(OnMenuClosedListener listener) {
    this.onMenuClosedListener = new WeakReference<MenuFragment.OnMenuClosedListener>(listener);
}

/**
 * Callback for when the menu is closed.
 */
public static interface OnMenuClosedListener {

    public abstract void onMenuClosed();

}

}

Answer 4

Added in API 26 (and in Support Library) you can use

 FragmentTransaction runOnCommit (Runnable runnable);

For example:

FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
ft.setCustomAnimations(R.anim.enter_from_right, R.anim.exit_from_left);
ft.show(YourFragment);
ft.commit();
ft.runOnCommit(() -> Your_Action_Here);

Answer 5

I had to do this in Xamarin. My situation was I needed a callback once the fragment animation ended. Here is how I made it work without any flickering (this is C#/Xamarin):

    public override Animation OnCreateAnimation(int transit, bool enter, int nextAnim)
    {
        Animation anim = base.OnCreateAnimation(transit, enter, nextAnim);

        if (anim == null && nextAnim != 0) {
            anim = AnimationUtils.LoadAnimation(Activity, nextAnim);
        }

        anim.SetAnimationListener(this);
        return anim;
    }

    public void OnAnimationEnd(Animation animation)
    {
    }

    public void OnAnimationRepeat(Animation animation)
    {
    }

    public void OnAnimationStart(Animation animation)
    {
    }

Note:

• The parent fragment has to implement Animation.IAnimationListener
• You have to return an AnimationSet otherwise the FragmentManager will override your listener and the callbacks won't fire.