How do I create a frame by frame animation on windows phone 7 (silverlight)

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What is the best way to create a frame by frame animation composed of png files on windows phone 7 application (silverlight)

This can be easily done in Android using AnimationDrawable and in iOS using UIView animationImages.

This post will help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5812752/spritesheet-in-silverlight — keyboardP, May 22 '11 at 19:39

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '11 at 23:30

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You can use a storyboard to animate the source property of an Image control, you can find some example code Candle Tutorial

answered May 22 '11 at 23:30

Nigel Sampson

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '11 at 10:25

This article discusses 4 ways how to do animations:

There is no "best way", i.e. the answer depends on your goal. Basically

Storyboard animations are nicest (highest frame rate), take most CPU cycles (because they make use of a privileged thread), support only primitive property types. You also have to learn respective API that can be used either in Xaml or in the code.
The other 2 types provide less fluent, but more CPU-effective approach. You have no limitations, but also no support - in other words you have to do everything yourself. (Which is often easier than using the Storyboard language.)

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