Fade in Activity from previous Activity in Android

Question

I am currently working on an Android app and I am having some issues with my splash activity. I want my main activity to fade in from my splash activity, not from a black sc

Answer 1

I'd recommend against a classic crossfade, but rather show the new Activity without an animation and just fade out the current Activity. This looks & feels much cleaner and resolves some minor issues where you can see the launcher/underlying app when you open the app from the background while the animation is starting.

my_splash_fade_out.xml

I'm adding a startOffset here to give the newly created Activity a bit off a head start, as it is rather heavy.

MySplashActivity.java

...
startActivity( ... );
finish();
overridePendingTransition( 0, R.anim.screen_splash_fade_out );

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