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Use reverseDuration for the AnimatedCrossFade size animation - #194860

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AnimatedCrossFade passes duration and reverseDuration to AnimatedSize. But AnimatedSize is an implicit animation. Its RenderAnimatedSize controller only runs forward, so it never uses reverseDuration. Thus, when crossFadeState changes from showSecond to showFirst, the fade uses reverseDuration, but the size animation uses duration.

This change makes AnimatedCrossFade select the size duration from the status of its own controller:

  • AnimationStatus.reverse: reverseDuration, or duration if reverseDuration is null.
  • All other statuses: duration.

AnimatedCrossFade no longer passes reverseDuration to AnimatedSize, because it had no effect. The public APIs of AnimatedSize and RenderAnimatedSize do not change.

When the widget is idle on either child, a size change of that child continues to use duration, as before.

A possible follow-up (not in this PR): deprecate AnimatedSize.reverseDuration and RenderAnimatedSize.reverseDuration, because neither has an effect.

Fixes #127780

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Two new tests in packages/flutter/test/widgets/animated_cross_fade_test.dart:

  • AnimatedCrossFade size animation uses reverseDuration when showing first child: fails before this change (Expected Size(150.0, 150.0), Actual Size(100.0, 100.0)), passes after it.
  • AnimatedCrossFade resizes the first child with duration after a reverse transition: after a showSecond to showFirst transition settles, the first child changes its own size, and the size animation uses duration.

After this change:

  • test/widgets/animated_cross_fade_test.dart: +19, all tests passed.
  • Stepper and ExpansionPanelList use AnimatedCrossFade. test/material/stepper_test.dart and test/material/expansion_panel_test.dart: +86, all tests passed.

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This pull request updates AnimatedCrossFade to use reverseDuration for the internal AnimatedSize when transitioning in the reverse direction, and adds tests to verify this behavior. The review feedback suggests checking _controller.status == AnimationStatus.reverse instead of _controller.isForwardOrCompleted to avoid asymmetric behavior during idle resizes of the first child, and recommends updating the corresponding test to assert this standard duration usage.

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LGTM! Nice catch.

As a follow-up (outside of this PR), it looks like AnimatedSize.reverseDuration is unused and is causing confusion.

We should probably file an follow-up PR to deprecate reverseDuration on AnimatedSize

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LGTM

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LGTM with some comments

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Hi, is this ready for re-review? Please remember to request a review if it is, so it gets back into the review queue.

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LGTM with comments.

Can you update the PR description with the latest state of the PR? And also documenting reverseDuration: Duration.zero still animating size over duration?

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LGTM

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AnimatedCrossFade size transition does not respect reverseDuration

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