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Pausing an animation that was playing when hidden will play again on resume

See original GitHub issue

This is similar to issue #987

But the fix proposed is incorrect, at least in my use case. I do think the fix is correct in some case: if the view is set from VISIBLE to GONE, then the animation must stop. But when the app is put in the background, onVisibilityChanged is not called. What is called is onWindowVisibilityChanged

To replicate the issue:

Start a looping animation
Put the app in the background
Check the profiler in Android Studio

Expected result:

Nothing is running

What is happening:

The profiler shows that the animation still runs

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:9

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soshialcommented, Nov 6, 2019

If animation had been looping before app was minimized, shouldn’t animation resume playing when app is restored/reopened? @thierryd

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gpealcommented, Mar 22, 2019

@thierryd I would accept a PR that flips those flags in play/pause/resume/cancel

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