Android Fade In/Out in Kotlin

Last Updated : 28 Oct, 2021

In Android Animations are the visuals that are added to make the user interface more interactive, clear and good looking. Fade In and Fade out animations are used to modify the appearance of any view over a set interval of time so that user can be notified about the changes that are occurring in our application.
In this article we will be discussing how to create a Fade In/Out animation in Kotlin .

XML Attributes	Description
android:duration	It is used to specify the duration of animation
android:fromAlpha	It is the starting alpha value for the animation, where 1.0 means fully opaque and 0.0 means fully transparent
android:toAlpha	It is the ending alpha value
android:id	Sets unique id of the view

First step is to create a new Project in Android Studio. For this follow these steps:

Click on File, then New and then New Project and give name whatever you like
Then, select Kotlin language Support and click next button.
Select minimum SDK, whatever you need
Select Empty activity and then click finish.

After that, we need to design our layout. For that we need to work with the XML file. Go to app > res > layout and paste the following code:

Modify activity_main.xml file

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
              xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent"
              tools:context=".MainActivity" android:orientation="vertical">
 
    <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textView"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="GeeksForGeeks"
            android:layout_centerInParent="true"
            android:textSize="30sp"
            android:textStyle="bold" />
 
    <Button
            android:id="@+id/fade_in"
            android:layout_width="100dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Fade In"
            android:layout_marginTop="140dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="100dp" />
    <Button
            android:id="@+id/fade_out"
            android:layout_width="100dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="140dp"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/fade_in"
            android:text="Fade Out"
            android:textAllCaps="false" />
 
</RelativeLayout>

Add anim folder

In this folder, we will be adding the XML files which will be used to produce the animations. For this to happen, go to app/res right click and then select, Android Resource Directory and name it as anim.
Again right click this anim folder and select Animation resource file and name it as fade_in. Similarly, also create fade_out.xml and paste the following code.
fade_in.xml

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    android:interpolator="@android:anim/linear_interpolator">
    <alpha
        android:duration="2000"
        android:fromAlpha="0.1"
        android:toAlpha="1.0" />
</set>

fade_out.xml

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    android:interpolator="@android:anim/linear_interpolator">
    <alpha
        android:duration="2000"
        android:fromAlpha="1.0"
        android:toAlpha="0.1" />
</set>

Modify MainActivity.kt file

Open app/src/main/java/yourPackageName/MainActivity.kt and do the following changes:

Java

package com.geeksforgeeks.myfirstKotlinapp
 
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle
import android.os.Handler
import android.view.View
import android.view.animation.AnimationUtils
import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.activity_main.*
 
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
 
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
 
        //setting button onClickListener
        fade_in.setOnClickListener {
        textView.visibility = View.VISIBLE
        //loading our custom made animations
        val animation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.fade_in)
        //starting the animation
        textView.startAnimation(animation)
    }
    fade_out.setOnClickListener {
        val animation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.fade_out)
        textView.startAnimation(animation)
        //textview will be invisible after the specified amount
        // of time elapses, here it is 1000 milliseconds
        Handler().postDelayed({
            textView.visibility = View.GONE
        }, 1000)
    }
}
}

AndroidManifest.xml file

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          package="i.apps.fadeinout">
 
    <application
            android:allowBackup="true"
            android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
            android:supportsRtl="true"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
 
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
 
</manifest>