Cancel Shared Return Transition on Android Lollipop

Question

I was playing around with Lollipop's Activity Transition.

I have a button in Activity A which when clicked calls Activity B. In the Activity B, I am overriding onBackPressed() and calling finishAfterTransition()

Activity B just has two relative layout blocks with the background color. I have put a shared element transition from the Button to one of the blocks and it works perfectly. Even the return transition works.

But the problem I am having is that I am not able to cancel the shared element return transition and implement a normal exit transition.

The intent was to slide the two blocks off the screen, top one off the top and bottom one off the bottom. That's not working if I have a shared element transition enabled.

I tried setting the exit transition and setting null to sharedElementReturn transition on Activity B. Not working.

I tried setting the reenter transition on Activity A with the slide transition, but still, the shared element transition is reversed on the back press.

If I turn off the shared element transition, the desired effect is perfect on return from Activity B to A.

Any ideas?

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I played around a bit and managed to turn off the return transition by setting the SharedReturnTransition on Activity B, but I still can't get it animated on finishAfterTransition() – Within

Do you have a video (i.e. generated using Android Studio's screen capture feature) illustrating the bug? It's hard to visualize the problem you are describing. Some code might help too. – Wirephoto

I'll try and get the video. Right now I am in office and don't have access to my personal laptop. Till that time, the effect I was trying to achieve can be seen in the Google Play Store app. When you click on an app, the icon is "shared element transition"-ed to the next screen. And on back press, the top and bottom part slides off screen. – Within

If you don't want to use the return transition, you can just call finish() in Activity B instead of finishAfterTransition(). – Embarrassment