Notes

The official Flutter website contains a very good introduction to Animations, including videos, codelabs, tutorials and more:

• Introduction to animations

If you have already explored these resources before, this section will be a refresher on the most important topics.

Or, if you are new to animations, I'll bring you up to speed and explain the most important concepts with some examples.

Explicit animations

• give us more control (using AnimationController)
• more complex to create
• start/stop, can go forward/reverse
• can be interactive (with gesture detectors)

Implicit Animations

• give us less control, but are easier to create
• using either custom or built-in animated widgets
• use with animations that always go forward and don't repeat forever

This section will cover implicit animations.