Pop the fragment backstack without playing the Pop-Animation

I push a fragment on the fragment stack using the following code:

FragmentManager fragmentManager = getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
fragmentTransaction.setCustomAnimations(R.anim.slide_in_right, R.anim.slide_out_right,
     R.anim.slide_in_left, R.anim.slide_out_left);
fragmentTransaction.replace(getId(), newFragment);
fragmentTransaction.addToBackStack(null);
fragmentTransaction.commit();

This way, when the fragment stack is popped, e.g. by pressing the back button, a fragment pop animation is played. However, there are situations in which i would like to pop the fragment backstack without showing this animation, e.g. because I just returned from another activity and want to display the previous fragment at once, without animation.

An example navigation could look like this:

• The user is on the start screen with the root fragment
• He selects an item on the root fragment which then displays a new fragment to show details of that item. It does so using a fragment transaction that sets animations both for the push and the pop case (so when the user presses the back button, the transition is animated)
• From this fragment he starts an activity which (for whatever reason) deletes the item that was just shown
• When this activity finishes, I would like to return to the root fragment without showing the "pop animation" of the "detail fragment"

Is there a way to pop the fragment backstack without playing the specified pop animation?

So Warpzit was on the right track, he just didn't address your specific issue too well. I came across the exact same issue and here is how I solved it.

First I created a static boolean variable (for simplicity's sake, lets put it in the FragmentUtils class)...

public class FragmentUtils {
    public static boolean sDisableFragmentAnimations = false;
}

Then, in EVERY fragment you have, you need to override the onCreateAnimation method...

@Override
public Animation onCreateAnimation(int transit, boolean enter, int nextAnim) {
    if (FragmentUtils.sDisableFragmentAnimations) {
        Animation a = new Animation() {};
        a.setDuration(0);
        return a;
    }
    return super.onCreateAnimation(transit, enter, nextAnim);
}

Then, when you need to clear the backstack from your activity simply do the following...

public void clearBackStack() {
    FragmentUtils.sDisableFragmentAnimations = true;
    getSupportFragmentManager().popBackStackImmediate(null, FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
    FragmentUtils.sDisableFragmentAnimations = false;
}

And voila, a call to clearBackStack() will drop you back into the root fragment without any transition animations.

Hopefully the big G will add a less stupid way of doing this in the future.

So for the support library following works:

In the fragment which should have a custom pop animation you override the onCreateAnimation with your own custom one. You could get it and set some kind of parameter depending on what you want. There might need to be done some extra work to make it work with regular fragments.

Here is the example where I'm overriding it and changing the set duration:

@Override
public Animation onCreateAnimation(int transit, boolean enter, int nextAnim) {
	Animation anim = (Animation) super.onCreateAnimation(transit, enter, nextAnim);
	if(!enter) {
		if(anim != null) {
			anim.setDuration(0); // This doesn't seem to be called.
			return anim;
		} else {
			Animation test = new TestAnimation();
			test.setDuration(0);
			return test;
		}
	}
	return anim;
}

private class TestAnimation extends Animation {
	
}

> The user is on the start screen with the root fragment

Lets say the root fragment is contained in Activity A.

> He selects an item on the root fragment which then displays a new fragment to show details of that item. It does so using a fragment transaction that sets animations both for the push and the pop case (so when the user presses the back button, the transition is animated)

The transaction is added to the back stack. Which means that when the back button is pressed from detail fragment, the popping process is animated.

> From this fragment he starts an activity which (for whatever reason) deletes the item that was just shown.

Lets say it is Activity B

> When this activity finishes, I would like to return to the root fragment without showing the "pop animation" of the "detail fragment"

One way of getting this behavior is by doing this in Activity B :

Intent intent = new Intent(this, A.class);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP); 
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(intent);
finish();

This will start the Activity A resetting it to its root state according to the documentation.(check the last paragraph in the section which says "This launch mode can also be used to good effect in conjunction with FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK:......")

With this configuration, the animation will be present in the default case while in the special case you can control the animation using :

intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);

Which starts new activity without any animations. If you do want any animation, you can do it using the overridePendingTransition method.

Android actually now has a way to do this without the work around @Geoff answered.

To avoid the animation to run on popBackStack(), when inflating your fragments add .setReorderingAllowed(true) to your fragmentTransaction.

So for example:

supportFragmentTransaction.beginTransaction()
    .setReorderingAllowed(true)
    .addToBackStack(null)
    .setCustomAnimations(
        android.R.anim.fade_in,
        android.R.anim.fade_out,
        android.R.anim.fade_in,
        android.R.anim.fade_out
    )
    .replace(yourContainer.id, yourFragment)
    .commit()

You'll notice that if you set setReorderingAllowed(true), the pop animation would no longer play. The results are actually similar to the result of @Geoff's answer.

So, I'd like to suggest a small change to @Geoff's answer.

Instead of having a global static boolean, I'd rather have a local non-static one. This is what I came up with.

Create an interface

public interface TransitionAnimator {
    void disableTransitionAnimation();
    void enableTransitionAnimation();
}

Make the fragment implement that interface.

public class MyFragment extends Fragment implements TransitionAnimator {
    
    private boolean mTransitionAnimation;
    
    @Override
    public void disableTransitionAnimation() {
	    mTransitionAnimation = false;
    }

    @Override
    public void enableTransitionAnimation() {
	    mTransitionAnimation = true;
	}

    @Override
    public Animation onCreateAnimation(int transit, boolean enter, int nextAnim) {
	    Animation result;
		if (!mTransitionAnimation) {
    		Animation dummyAnimation = new Animation() {
	    	};
		    dummyAnimation.setDuration(0);
			result = dummyAnimation;
    	} else {
	    	result = super.onCreateAnimation(transit, enter, nextAnim);
		}
    	return result;
    }

And then, when you want to disable the transition animations for a fragment, just do

if (fragment instanceof TransitionAnimator) {
	((TransitionAnimator) fragment).disableTransitionAnimation();
}

to enable them, just do

if (fragment instanceof TransitionAnimator) {
	((TransitionAnimator) fragment).enableTransitionAnimation();
}

If you want to do the same for all the fragments in the fragment manager, just do

List<Fragment> fragments = getSupportFragmentManager().getFragments();
for (Fragment fragment : fragments) {
	if (fragment instanceof TransitionAnimator) {
        // disable animations
		((TransitionAnimator) fragment).disableTransitionAnimation();
	}
}

Very similar, but without static fields.

Just use another overloaded method of setCustomAnimation() and in which do not set the R.anim.slide_out and that will solve your problem

Cheers :)

Before answering your question, I need to ask a question myself.

In the onBackPressed() method of the second activity, can you access the backstack of the first activity?

If yes, then you can call popBackStackImmediate(String trnaisiotnName, int inclusive) and it will remove the fragment transition from the backstack, and you dont need to worry about animations.

I am assuming you can access backstack of the previous activity, otherwise this wont work

This is fairly easy to achieve through overridePendingTransition(int enterAnim, int exitAnim) with both 0 for no animation.

FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
if (fm.getBackStackEntryCount() > 0) {
    fm.popBackStack();
    overridePendingTransition(0, 0);
}

This is a follow-up to @Geoff's excellent answer, but fitted for a more dynamic and real-live scenario.

I imagined this being a nice little post, but I realize now that it got a little out of hand. However, the code is all there and I find it really useful, though it covers a lot more than just how to disable transition animations.

Usually, when I work with Fragments I like to have a BaseFragment that attaches to a BaseActivityCallback. This BaseActivityCallback can be used by the my Fragments to add a new Fragment on top of itself, or even to pop Fragments beneath it, hence the desire to disable pop animations -- or pop silently:

interface BaseActivityCallback
{
    void addFragment ( BaseFragment f, int containerResId );
    void popFragment ( boolean silently );
}

class BaseActivity extends android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity implements BaseActivityCallback
{
    public void addFragment ( BaseFragment f, int containerResId )
    {
        FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
        ft.setCustomAnimations(R.anim.enter, R.anim.exit, R.anim.enter, R.anim.pop_exit); // http://stackoverflow.com/a/17488542/2412477
        ft.addToBackStack(DEFAULT_FRAGMENT_STACK_NAME);
        ft.replace(containerResId, fragment);
        ft.commitAllowingStateLoss();
    }        

    public void popFragment ( boolean silently )
    {
        FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();                
        if ( silently ) {
            int count = fm.getFragments().size();
            BaseFragment f = (BaseFragment)fm.getFragments().get(count-1);
            f.setDisableTransitionAnimations(true);
        }
        fm.popBackStackImmediate();
    }
}

public abstract class BaseFragment extends android.support.v4.app.Fragment
{
    private static final String TAG = "BaseFragment";
    private final String STATE_DISABLE_TRANSITION_ANIMATIONS = TAG+".stateDisableTransitionAnimations";

    protected BaseActivityCallback baseActivityCallback;
    private boolean disableTransitionAnimations;    

    @Override
    public void onCreate ( @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState )
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        disableTransitionAnimations = (savedInstanceState==null ? false : savedInstanceState.getBoolean(STATE_DISABLE_TRANSITION_ANIMATIONS, false));
    }

    @Override
    public void onAttach ( Context context )
    {
        super.onAttach(context);
        baseActivityCallback = (BaseActivityCallback)context;
    }

    @Override
    public void onSaveInstanceState ( Bundle outState )
    {
        super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
        outState.putBoolean(STATE_DISABLE_TRANSITION_ANIMATIONS, disableTransitionAnimations);
    }

    @Override
    public Animation onCreateAnimation ( int transit, boolean enter, int nextAnim )
    {
        if ( disableTransitionAnimations ) {
            Animation nop = new Animation(){};
            nop.setDuration(0);
            return nop;
        }
        return super.onCreateAnimation(transit, enter, nextAnim);
    }

    public void setDisableTransitionAnimations ( boolean disableTransitionAnimations )
    {
        this.disableTransitionAnimations = disableTransitionAnimations; // http://stackoverflow.com/a/11253987/2412477
    }
}

Now you can create your MainActivity and have that show a Fragment1 which can add another Fragment2 which may in turn pop Fragment1 silently:

public class MainActivity extends BaseActivity
{
    protected void onCreate ( Bundle savedInstanceState )
    {
        setContentView(R.layout.main_activity);
        ...
        if ( getSupportFragmentManager().getFragments() != null && !getSupportFragmentManager().getFragments().isEmpty() ) {

            addFragment( FragmentA.newInstance(), R.id.main_activity_fragment_container );
        }
    }
    ...
}

public class FragmentA extends BaseFragment
{
    public View onCreateView ( LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState )
    {
        ViewGroup root = (ViewGroup)inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_a, container, false);
        ...
        root.findViewById(R.id.fragment_a_next_button)
            .setOnClickListener( new View.OnClickListener() {
                 public void onClick ( View v ) {
                      baseActivityCallback.addFragment( FragmentB.newInstance(), R.id.main_activity_fragment_container );
                 }
             });
    }
}

public class FragmentB extends BaseFragment
{
    public View onCreateView ( LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState )
    {
        ViewGroup root = (ViewGroup)inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_b, container, false);
        ...
        root.findViewById(R.id.fragment_b_pop_silently_button)
            .setOnClickListener( new View.OnClickListener() {
                 public void onClick ( View v ) {
                      baseActivityCallback.popFragment( true );
                 }
             });
    }
}

Override this in the fragment that you want to pop without animation and still keep the animation when you enter

@Override
public Animation onCreateAnimation(int transit, boolean enter, int nextAnim) {
    if(!enter){
        Animation a = new Animation() {};
        a.setDuration(0);
        return a;
    }
    return super.onCreateAnimation(transit, enter, nextAnim);
}

Easier solution:

for (fragment in supportFragmentManager.fragments) {
    removeFragment(fragment)
}
if (supportFragmentManager.backStackEntryCount > 0) {
    supportFragmentManager.popBackStackImmediate(null, FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE)
}

Reply to Geoff and plackemacher comment.

You can try to remove all views from this Fragment. Then fragment will show but it should be transparent.

Remove all-1 (I use navigate drawer so drawer fragment should stay) fragment:

    int size = fragmentsList.size ()-1;

    FragmentTransaction transaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction ();
    transaction.setTransition (FragmentTransaction.TRANSIT_NONE);

    Fragment fragment;

    for (int i = size ; i > 0 ; i--)
    {
        fragment = fragmentsList.get (i);
        if(fragment != null)
        {
            View viewContainer = fragment.getView ();
            if (viewContainer != null)
            {
                ((ViewGroup) viewContainer).removeAllViews ();
            }
            transaction.remove (fragment);
        }
    }

    size = fragmentManager.getBackStackEntryCount ();

    for (int i = 0; i < size  ; i++)
    {
        fragmentManager.popBackStack (null, FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
    }

Sorry for my English