Weird issue when transitioning ImageView in Android 5.0

Question

I'm experiencing a strange issue / bug regarding ImageView transitions between Activities in Android 5.0.

I'm trying to transition a thumbnail image from Fragment A (in Activity A) to the header image of Fragment B (in Activity B). It works well most of the time, but it sometimes messes up ever so slightly.

Here's a picture of what it looks like when it messes up:

Naturally, it's supposed to fill the entire area. Both ImageViews are set to ScaleType.CENTER_CROP, so I can't imagine that being the issue.

What's curious is that the issue fixes itself immediately upon scrolling in Activity B (everything is contained within a subclassed ScrollView that changes the ImageView padding upon scrolling).

The code for launching Activity B is pretty simple:

ActivityOptionsCompat options = ActivityOptionsCompat.makeSceneTransitionAnimation(
    activity, thumbImageView, "cover"); // "cover" is the shared element name for both ImageViews
ActivityCompat.startActivity(activity, intent, options.toBundle());

Here's the code for the observable ScrollView listener:

scrollview.setOnScrollChangedListener(new OnScrollChangedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onScrollChanged(ScrollView who, int l, int t, int oldl, int oldt) {
        // Such parallax, much wow
        headerImageView.setPadding(0, (int) (t / 1.5), 0, 0);
    }
});

Also, here's part of my theme style:

<item name="android:windowContentTransitions">true</item>
<item name="android:windowAllowEnterTransitionOverlap">true</item>
<item name="android:windowAllowReturnTransitionOverlap">true</item>
<item name="android:windowSharedElementEnterTransition">@android:transition/move</item>
<item name="android:windowSharedElementExitTransition">@android:transition/move</item>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try adding the following code to your Fragment B's onCreateView() method:

getActivity().postponeEnterTransition(); 
scrollView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnPreDrawListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnPreDrawListener() { 
    public boolean onPreDraw() { 
        scrollView.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnPreDrawListener(this);
        getActivity().startPostponedEnterTransition();
        return true;
    }
});

Does the problem still occur when this code is present? This will ensure that the transition only begins after the fragment has finished its layout.

You might even need to call startPostponedEnterTransition() later than this... for example, if you are loading a high resolution image in your second activity, try calling startPostponedEnterTransition after the image has been loaded (i.e. set the onPreDraw listener on the ImageView instead of on the window's decor view).