RecyclerView Item Animation in Android Studio 2023: Your Ultimate Guide to Achieve Perfect User Experience

RecyclerView is a powerful UI component in Android Studio that allows you to display a large dataset of items on the screen efficiently. Animating RecyclerView items can make your app more engaging and provide a better user experience. In this article, we will learn how to animate RecyclerView items in Android Studio using various animation libraries.
There are several ways to animate RecyclerView items in Android Studio, but we will focus on two popular animation libraries:

• RecyclerView Animators
• Android Layout Animations

RecyclerView Animators is a popular animation library that provides several pre-built animations for RecyclerView items. This library is easy to use and requires minimal code changes. Let’s see how to use RecyclerView Animators to animate RecyclerView items.

To use RecyclerView Animators, you need to add the following dependency to your app-level build.gradle file:

Let’s create a RecyclerView layout with a simple TextView as the item view. Create a new XML file in the res/layout folder and name it item_layout.xml. Paste the following code in the file:

Next, we need to create a RecyclerView Adapter to bind data to the RecyclerView items. Create a new Kotlin class and name it MyAdapter. Paste the following code in the class:

The MyAdapter class takes a list of strings as input and uses it to populate the TextView in each item view.

Now, we can add animations to the RecyclerView items using the RecyclerView Animators library. In the onCreateViewHolder method of the MyAdapter class, we can add an animation to the item view using the RecyclerView Animators library. Replace the onCreateViewHolder method with the following code:

In the above code, we have used the SlideInUpAnimator animation to add an animation to the item view. We have also set the duration and interpolator for the animation.

You can find the full list of animations in the RecyclerView Animators documentation.

Now, we can use the MyAdapter in our MainActivity to display the RecyclerView with animated items. Open the MainActivity class and paste the following code:

In the above code, we have created a list of strings and passed it to the MyAdapter constructor. We have also set the RecyclerView layout manager and adapter.

Step 6: Run the App

Android Layout Animations

Step 1: Enable Layout Animations

<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
 <translate android:fromXDelta="100%"
 android:toXDelta="0%"
 android:duration="500"/>
 <alpha android:fromAlpha="0"
 android:toAlpha="1"
 android:duration="500"/>
</set> 

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity()
 {
 override
 fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?)
 {
 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
 setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
 val items = listOf("Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3", "Item 4", "Item 5")
 val adapter = MyAdapter(items)
 recyclerView.layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(this)
 recyclerView.adapter = adapter
 val controller = AnimationUtils.loadLayoutAnimation(this, R.anim.recyclerview_anim)
 recyclerView.layoutAnimation = controller
 recyclerView.scheduleLayoutAnimation() 
} 
} 

Step 2: Run the App

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity()
 {
 override
 fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?)
 {
 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
 setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
 val items = listOf("Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3", "Item 4", "Item 5")
 val adapter = MyAdapter(items)
 recyclerView.layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(this)
 recyclerView.adapter = adapter
 val controller = AnimationUtils.loadLayoutAnimation(this, R.anim.recyclerview_anim)
 recyclerView.layoutAnimation = controller
 recyclerView.scheduleLayoutAnimation()
 }
 } 

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