Fix animation start jank due to expensive layout operations.
The Choreographer carefully schedules animation updates to occur after input but before traversals occur. This ensures that the effects of animations are perceived immediately in the next frame. The start time of animation is usually set the moment the animator first runs. The start time serves as a reference for timing the remainder of the animation. Setting the start time during the animation callback works well except when traversals take a long time to complete. In that case, we may end up drawing the initial frame of the animation then skipping several following frames (because a lot of time has already passed since the animation start time was set), effectively shortening the duration of the animation. To resolve this issue, we introduce a new COMMIT phase within the Choreographer. The COMMIT callback runs after traversals complete and may provide an updated frame time that more accurately reflects the time when the frame finished drawing. In the case where an animation is just starting, we note the fact that its initial start time has not yet been committed (the user hasn't actually seen anything on screen yet). Then, during the COMMIT phase, we adjust the animation start time to better reflect the time when the animation's first frame was drawn, effectively causing the animation actually start after the expensive traversal operations occurred such that no frames will be skipped. Bug: 17258911 Change-Id: I279603d01fd4ed1de8f51a77c62f4fec5e9b746a
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