The second but not less critical purpose of applying the tool is to help users understand what your app actually does. MotionLayout is primarily used in mobile application development when animating the UI elements a user will interact with. In terms of capabilities, it’s like a mix between the property animation framework, TransitionManager, and CoordinatorLayout. As Nicolas Roard, one of the Google developers working on MotionLayout puts it: Since then, it’s already been released to a stable beta version, so it’s become widely available and popular for android applications development.įundamentally, the tool helps Android app developers to handle motion and widget animation in their applications.

A couple of words about MotionLayoutīasically, MotionLayout is a new class of the ConstraintLayout 2.0 library, which was announced back at Google IO 2018. Applying MotionLayout for a Collapsing Toolbar: the processĭisclaimer: For continuing to read the article, just make sure that you’re familiar with MotionLayout and ConstraintLayout basics.

So, in this article, I’ll show you how to create an Android Collapsing Toolbar with MotionLayout.

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