KenBurnsView

Why we included this project

Android developers who want a polished, cinematic feel in their apps without hand-rolling animation code will find this library immediately useful. It wraps the classic Ken Burns effect, the slow zoom-and-pan motion familiar from documentary films, into a drop-in replacement for the standard ImageView, so you can add that subtle living quality to hero images, onboarding screens, or media galleries with just an XML tag swap. The library keeps the animation configurable: you can set transition duration and interpolators, pause and resume playback, and listen for transition start and end events. Because it extends ImageView directly, it plays nicely with the image-loading libraries you already use, and the transition generator is pluggable if you want to define your own zoom and pan patterns. It is a small, focused dependency that solves one visual problem cleanly rather than pulling in a heavyweight animation framework.