Shared element activity transition on android 5

Question

I wanted to setup a shared element transition when going from one Activity to another.

The first Activity has a RecyclerView with items. When an item is clicked that it

Answer 1

I had this same error, mine was caused by the same reasoning behind hidro's answer but was caused by the keyboard hiding the shared element that the transition was going back to.

My workaround was to programmatically close the keyboard right before finishing the activity so the shared element on the previous activity isn't obscured.

View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
supportFinishAfterTransition();