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Android Studio lets you inspect animations from Animation Preview. If an animation is described in a composable preview, you can inspect the exact value of each animated value at a given time, pause the animation, loop it, fast-forward it, or slow it, to help you debug the animation throughout its transitions:

[Play back, scrub through, and slow down the AnimatedVisibility]

You can also use Animation Preview to graph visualize animation curves, which is useful for making sure that the animation values are choreographed properly:

[Visualization of an animation curve]

Animation Preview automatically detects inspectable animations, which are indicated by the Start Animation Preview icon [Play button to start animation preview].

[Start Animation Preview icon in Design window]

If you have multiple animations, you can use Animation Preview to inspect and coordinate them all at once. You can also freeze a specific animation.

[Gif showing inspection with All Animations UI]

Use pickers to set non-enum or boolean states to debug your Compose animation using precise inputs. For all supported Compose Animation APIs, you can play, pause, scrub, control speed, and coordinate.

[Pick precise values for animation previews]

Animation Preview supports the updateTransition, AnimatedVisibility, animate*AsState, CrossFade, rememberInfiniteTransition, and AnimatedContent APIs. To access the latest features, use Animation Preview with Android Studio Quail 3 and compose.animation 1.12.0 and higher.

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Last updated 2026-08-17 UTC.

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