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ICS animation scale

Hey guys,
What's the difference between Window Animation scale and Transition animation scale? I set the window animation scale to 5 to see what's the difference but I cannot really tell?

Window is how fast the popups for things like as a example notification choosing, transition is going from menu to menu(with animations turned on)
1x is normal speed, 0.5 is twice as fast and 10 is 10 times as slow
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

Played with window animation and it seems that its not used as much as the transition animation.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App

rasengan82 said:
Hey guys,
What's the difference between Window Animation scale and Transition animation scale? I set the window animation scale to 5 to see what's the difference but I cannot really tell?
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When setting the value lower (number wise) the animations are done faster, such as windows coming in and out of view etc (doesn't effect scrolling) I think home scrolling is effected though
When setting the value higher (number wise) the animations are presented alot slower, I set the value to 5 that you were using, from the Default (1), and all the animations were HELL! slow haha! Painful to use, felt boggy
Transition Animation numbers effect when windows come in and out of view such as opening settings, applications etc
The window animation is the windows "inside windows" that come in and out of view, such as if you set window animation to 10, and then go to the home page and press your settings button so it displays "Add, Wallpapers, Search, Widgets" etc, it opens hell slow
As well as if the value of Window Animation Scale is 10, when you get out of everything and go back into it to change it to 1 (Default) again, the window that opens that shows x.5 | x1 | x1.5 | 2 | 2.5 etc opens heaps slowly!
That's what the difference is

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Hi all,
How can i enable back the animations?
I played a little with all the options (x1, x0.5, x10 etc) just to see the differences. Then I selected the first option ("none"/"off") for Windows animation scale and Transition animation scale and then these 2 options became inactive. I cannot enable them back. I have an HTC One V.
Please advice.

tomitza07 said:
Hi all,
How can i enable back the animations?
I played a little with all the options (x1, x0.5, x10 etc) just to see the differences. Then I selected the first option ("none"/"off") for Windows animation scale and Transition animation scale and then these 2 options became inactive. I cannot enable them back. I have an HTC One V.
Please advice.
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me too, using htc one v, i can't turn it back on though have reset it to factory default both from the power button and volume down while booting, or from the storage factory data reset setting.
i contacted HTC support but they simulated my problems and still be able to turn the windows animation scale and transition scale back on after being switched off.

Animator duration scale?

Anyone know what "Animator duration scale" in the Developer options settings is?

I'd like to know, too

Seems even google doesn't know since I haven't found the information despite googling for some time.
Since transition and window animations are covered by the other options I can only assume it affects widget animations or something.

clankfu said:
Anyone know what "Animator duration scale" in the Developer options settings is?
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This animation is when you press the app tray button.
However, you may change this option and notice it has no effect! Fine, call me a liar. Seriously though...
The reason it will *appear* to have no effect is because the launcher will need to be restarted.
Just set it to .5 or off if you want your app tray to pop up MUCH faster.
I assume this has no effect on custom launchers.

bunklung said:
This animation is when you press the app tray button.
However, you may change this option and notice it has no effect! Fine, call me a liar. Seriously though...
The reason it will *appear* to have no effect is because the launcher will need to be restarted.
Just set it to .5 or off if you want your app tray to pop up MUCH faster.
I assume this has no effect on custom launchers.
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I was looking for this too, and did not find any answer, so I tried to set Animator duration scale to 10x and result is that this is let's say in app animation. In camera app it's animation of hiding settings buttons etc.
Truth is that an app has to be restarted to take effect. Just press recent apps and swype application , you're testing on away.
You can try it or watch video on YT http://youtu.be/Qot4n0EV1SE

hope this helps.
It changes the speed of certain apps animation and some system animation. Keeping it off or lower will increase the speed of animation.
video-https://youtu.be/jAlH2BxJhBM

[BUG TEST] Disabling animations kills ability to launch applications by icon tapping

Hello XDA members,
I've created this thread to devise a bug test. The bug is as follows: When disabling all animations, tapping on an icon in the stock launcher does not run any application when tapping sloppily. An exact tap has to be met.
It only applies to stock roms. The purpose is to link this thread to SONY developers depending on the test outcomes.
The test is simple:
Navigate to Settings → Developer options, and set the following:
Window animation scale→ off.
Transition animation scale → off.
Animator duration scale → off.
Reboot phone.
Now try tapping on any launcher icon. According to the bug description tapping on an icon won't launch any application unless you tap 'correctly'. It might be about 1pixel precision, so no unnecessary movements. Quite difficult to achieve on a 1080x1920 display.
To revert back do the following:
Swipe down to open the notifications bar.
Navigate to Settings → Developer options, and set the following:
Window animation scale→ 1x.
Transition animation scale → 1x.
Animator duration scale → 1x.
Reboot phone.
Please reply with feedback whether application launching worked or not, and help make Xperia Z a better phone. Thank you!
UPDATE: The bug seems to be solely caused by Animator duration scale - keeping it on allows easy tapping.

Yes you're right I faced the same problem after disabling the animation

I've had this problem since pretty much day 1 of getting this phone.
One of the first things I do when setting up my phone is disable animations. I have re-enabled the animations and the home launcher is working again.
I might stick with nova launcher for now though. It's a lot smoother and I don't like animations.

works with .5 then reboot

It works, now I can use my sony stock launcher again. thanks :good:

Transition animation keeps changing to 1x

The transition animation from developers options keeps changing to 1x. Is there any way to force this to stay ? I really do not like the transition animations.

mikeprius said:
The transition animation from developers options keeps changing to 1x. Is there any way to force this to stay ? I really do not like the transition animations.
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what I've noticed is that it changes to 1x when you use the camera... unfortunately I have not found a way to make it stick.

Can't enableSystem UI Tuner

I'm on 7.1.1 and unlocked the bootloader-otherwise it is stock and up to date. I just can't get the settings button to spin for access to the Sytem UI Tuner.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also have Developer Options enabled.
Thanks,

boidsonly said:
I'm on 7.1.1 and unlocked the bootloader-otherwise it is stock and up to date. I just can't get the settings button to spin for access to the Sytem UI Tuner.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also have Developer Options enabled.
Thanks,
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In developer settings make sure the Window Animation Scale, Transition Animation, and Animator Duration are all set to some value other than animation off. For some reason this did not allow me to activate the Tuner UI and I used 0.5x

Thanks! Never would haver figured that out...
Thanks again!