Method of animating a rearrangement of ui elements on a display screen of an eletronic device

摘要

A method of animating a rearrangement of user interface elements on a display screen of an electronic device is disclosed herein. The method comprises: displaying a plurality of user interface elements on the display screen, each user interface element having an initial screen position corresponding to a first layout; in response to a command from an application to switch to a second layout, for each user interface element, determining at a rendering engine, without further input from the application, a final screen position corresponding to the second layout and a plurality of intermediate screen positions corresponding to a path between the initial screen position and the final screen position; and re-rendering each user interface element successively at each of its determined positions.