Summary

In this chapter, we covered the following topics:

• A fun way to enhance UI elements by extending them with animation capabilities
• All the major types of animation supported by Android: frame-by-frame animation, layout animation, and view animation
• Animation concepts such as interpolators and transformation matrices
• Depth perception for 2D views through the Camera object
• Most aspects of the new Property Animation API

Now that you have this background, we encourage you to go through the API samples that come with the Android SDK to examine the sample XML definitions for a variety of animations.