How can I scale textviews using shared element transitions?

Question

I am able to get TextViews to transition perfectly between two activities using ActivityOptions.makeSceneTransitionAnimation. However I want to make the text sc

Answer 1

Edit:

As pointed out by Kiryl Tkach in the comments below, there is a better solution described in this Google I/O talk.

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You can create a custom transition that animates a TextView's text size as follows:

public class TextSizeTransition extends Transition {
    private static final String PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE = "alexjlockwood:transition:textsize";
    private static final String[] TRANSITION_PROPERTIES = { PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE };

    private static final Property TEXT_SIZE_PROPERTY =
            new Property(Float.class, "textSize") {
                @Override
                public Float get(TextView textView) {
                    return textView.getTextSize();
                }

                @Override
                public void set(TextView textView, Float textSizePixels) {
                    textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, textSizePixels);
                }
            };

    public TextSizeTransition() {
    }

    public TextSizeTransition(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    public String[] getTransitionProperties() {
        return TRANSITION_PROPERTIES;
    }

    @Override
    public void captureStartValues(TransitionValues transitionValues) {
        captureValues(transitionValues);
    }

    @Override
    public void captureEndValues(TransitionValues transitionValues) {
        captureValues(transitionValues);
    }

    private void captureValues(TransitionValues transitionValues) {
        if (transitionValues.view instanceof TextView) {
            TextView textView = (TextView) transitionValues.view;
            transitionValues.values.put(PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE, textView.getTextSize());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Animator createAnimator(ViewGroup sceneRoot, TransitionValues startValues, 
                                   TransitionValues endValues) {
        if (startValues == null || endValues == null) {
            return null;
        }

        Float startSize = (Float) startValues.values.get(PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE);
        Float endSize = (Float) endValues.values.get(PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE);
        if (startSize == null || endSize == null || 
            startSize.floatValue() == endSize.floatValue()) {
            return null;
        }

        TextView view = (TextView) endValues.view;
        view.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, startSize);
        return ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(view, TEXT_SIZE_PROPERTY, startSize, endSize);
    }
}

Since changing the TextView's text size will cause its layout bounds to change during the course of the animation, getting the transition to work properly will take a little more effort than simply throwing a ChangeBounds transition into the same TransitionSet. What you will need to do instead is manually measure/layout the view in its end state in a SharedElementCallback.

I've published an example project on GitHub that illustrates the concept (note that the project defines two Gradle product flavors... one uses Activity Transitions and the other uses Fragment Transitions).