Can I change the Android startActivity() transition animation?

Question

I am starting an activity and would rather have a alpha fade-in for startActivity(), and a fade-out for the finish(). How can I go about this in th

Answer 1

Most of the answers are pretty correct, but some of them are deprecated such as when using R.anim.hold and some of them are just elaboratig the process.

So, you can use:

startActivity(intent);
overridePendingTransition(android.R.anim.fade_in, android.R.anim.fade_out);