Android — How to animate visibility with Transition API

This section is about how you can animate visibility with Android Transition api.

The easiest way to animate Visibility changes is use Transition API which available in support (androidx) package. Just call TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition method then change visibility of the view. There are several default transitions like Fade, Slide.

import androidx.transition.TransitionManager;
import androidx.transition.Transition;
import androidx.transition.Fade;
private void toggle() {
    Transition transition = new Fade();
    transition.setDuration(600);
    transition.addTarget(R.id.image);
    TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(parent, transition);
    image.setVisibility(show ? View.VISIBLE : View.GONE);
}

Where parent is parent ViewGroup of animated view.

Fade Transition:

Slide transition:

import androidx.transition.Slide;
Transition transition = new Slide(Gravity.BOTTOM);