Basic Animation Titanium

Question

I need to do a crossfade animation between views for my project. Which is the best way to produce animation and creating views/windows which one is best. Suggest me a solutions for this work around? Am using Titanium 3.1.2.GA, Alloys and Android Emulator for my testing environment. Any examples may be appriciated? My thread in appcelerator forum

index.xml

<Alloy>
    <Window id="fblogin" class="container">
        <Require src="loginsuccess" id="loginsuccess"></Require>
        <Require src="loginFailure" id="loginFailure"></Require>
        <Require src="loginPage" id="loginPage"></Require>
    </Window>
</Alloy>

loginPage.xml

<Alloy>
    <View class="container">
        <LoginButton ns="Alloy.Globals.Facebook"/>
        <Button title="Google"></Button>
    </View>
</Alloy>

loginFailure.xml

<Alloy>
    <View class="container">
        <Label>Login Failed. Please try again later.</Label>
    </View>>
</Alloy>

loginsuccess.xml

<Alloy>
    <View class="container">
        <Label>Login Successful</Label>     
    </View>
</Alloy>

index.js

var animation = require('alloy/animation');
var loginPage = $.loginPage;
var loginsuccess = $.loginsuccess;
var loginFailure = $.loginFailure;
function loginFails(){
    animation.crossFade(loginPage, loginFailure, 500, function(){});
}
function loginSuccess(){
    animation.crossFade(loginPage, loginsuccess, 500, function(){});
}
$.fblogin.open();

mwfire mwfire · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-23T13:48:42

Referring to the problem description from your link:

Now if I call loginFails() or loginSuccess(), then its showing error because its in controller Index and not in other view controller. How to solve this?

In order to reference an element inside a required view, you have to use getView('elementId').

index.xml

<Alloy>
    <Window id="fblogin" class="container">
        <Require src="loginsuccess" id="loginsuccess"></Require>
        <Require src="loginFailure" id="loginFailure"></Require>
        <Require src="loginPage" id="loginPage"></Require>
    </Window>
</Alloy>

loginsuccess.xml

<Alloy>
    <View class="container" id="successContainer" visible="false">
        <Label>Login Successful</Label>     
    </View>
</Alloy>

index.js

var successView = $.loginsuccess.getView('successContainer');

You can now perform your crossfade on successView.

Edit:
Added visible="false" to the container view

Basic Animation Titanium

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