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Most organisations today have numerous choices close by for saving their documents. Generally, you’d store your documents on an external pen drive, HDD, or other media. Obviously, the drawback to utilising these strategies is that you have to keep the storage device handy all the time to access your documents. This isn’t always possible, as they can without much of a stretch get lost. In addition, it turns out to be practically difficult to share these documents with your associates or companions, except if you plan on mailing those copies each and every time without fail.

These days, virtual storage arrangements permit us to store our records on shared servers and access them from a large number of gadgets, any time, anywhere. Two cloud-based stages that allow you to spare, share, and match up documents across devices are Microsoft’s SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. One of the most common questions that pops up in the various organisation is ”SharePoint vs OneDrive, which one is better?” Right now, assess the fundamental contrasts between these two to find the answer to this question and see which is better for your business.

Lets first begin with understanding each one of them:

What is SharePoint?

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform expected to improve the working procedure in large associations and is proposed for a better joint effort of clients, record work process, and automation of operations. You can make a SharePoint portal, including wiki destinations, web journals, and dashboards where you can distribute archives and remarks. The principle highlights of SharePoint are:

The capacity to make a straightforward organisation structure in the digital arrangement.
Improvement of correspondence among department and employees. You can make dashboards to examine ventures and undertakings.
Control of settling errands and control of assignments that are being taken a shot at.
Clients can team up and alter a record shared on the server at the same time, just as trade archives, news, joins and different assets.
Automation of business forms – you don’t have to play out a noteworthy rundown of activities physically, permitting your you team to spare time.
A SharePoint portal permits you to make a corporate site.

The interface of a SharePoint portal permits you to produce reports, inform teams about significant occasions, distribute news, tune business forms with structures, and make client profiles. SharePoint has extensive utility and can be incorporated with other Microsoft Office applications and messengers

What is OneDrive?

Microsoft OneDrive is a cloud stockpiling administration that permits clients to store records in the Microsoft Cloud. OneDrive was previously known as SkyDrive, FolderShare, Windows Live Office, and LiveMesh. You can access OneDrive with or without an internet browser by introducing the OneDrive application. There are two kinds of OneDrive – OneDrive and OneDrive for Business.

OneDrive for Business (previously known as SkyDrive Pro) is similar to OneDrive yet contains additional highlights planned for business purposes. An association manager oversees OneDrive for business for users in your team to collaborate on records and different documents. The overseer can confine sharing alternatives for users. Users should sign in by utilising a work account, not an individual record so as to utilise OneDrive for Business. Unique maintenance arrangements that are accessible for OneDrive for Business permit executives to recoup documents erased by users. Different users can alter a report at the same time, and record forming is likewise accessible.

OneDrive for Business can be utilised independently (Office 365 Business plan) and with SharePoint Online (Office 365 Business Premium Plan). An organisation’s SharePoint libraries can be synchronized to the nearby PC of a user by utilising OneDrive. OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online can be incorporated with one another. You can consider OneDrive as backend stockpiling and SharePoint can be considered the frontend interface to all the more likely envision how the mix of these two stages is actualised. A connect to documents partook in OneDrive can be utilised as a connection for SharePoint Online.

SharePoint vs OneDrive for Business

The following table compares the features of SharePoint vs OneDrive:

OneDrive for Business	SharePoint Online
Available in business as well as consumer variant.	Available only for business use with no specific consumer variant.
Referred to as a storage location	Referred to as a team site
Can be perceived as a cloud version of my documents	Is more or less like a website
Al files are set to private permissions unless specified.	Uses default permissions as set by user
No shared interface	Users access through organisations domain
Appropriate for uploading private documents which are not intended to be shared	Suitable for public documents which need to be shared frequently.
OneDrive cannot include the additional security of a standalone server.	SharePoint can include the supplementary security of a standalone server.
Content In OneDrive can not be published to a webpage	Allows publishing of documents directly to the website
Evolved from SharePoint workspace 2010, which was previously called Groove 2007.	Cloud-based adaptation of the SharePoint service which belongs to the era of Office XP

Similarities between SharePoint and OneDrive for Business

Both of them are a part of Office 365 Business plans
Both are available as a stand-alone service.
The core architecture of both platforms is built on SharePoint.
Both of them manage files/data with versioning and metadata.
Both of them can be accessed by a browser as well as the local folder

CONCLUSION

So the reality, when looking at SharePoint versus OneDrive, is actually about how you intend to utilise it. Picking an answer relies upon the requirements of your organisation. In the event that you have to store records in the virtual storage, or offer documents and at times, alter records together with different users at the same time, you can utilise Microsoft OneDrive for Business. In the event that you have to make a corporate web-based interface for a coordinated effort of a high number of users in your organisation, consider utilising SharePoint Online, which is a discretionary segment of Microsoft Office 365. OneDrive for Business can be incorporated with SharePoint and can be utilised as storage for content transferred to a site dependent on the SharePoint stage. Both OneDrive and SharePoint Online work with the inalienable security of Microsoft items.

Doesn’t it look cool when one view appears to move across screens without breaking the continuity of motion? It just adds to the flair of your app, thus improving the app’s UX.Now, this can be achieved using Shared Element Transitions; but here is the catch. This transition effect is available only on devices running on Lollipop (Android 5.0 – API level 21) and higher.Shared elements transitions were introduced in Android 5.0 to make view transitions across screens more seamless and easy to implement. Using this transition, the switch between Activities or Fragments seems more natural and unforced.

Before Android 5.0, transition effects across Activities were available, but they would animate the entire root view of our screen. Using shared element transitions, we can animate any number of views, regardless of their view hierarchies.

Now, let’s see how we can implement shared element transitions in our Android apps-

Step 1 : Enable Window Content Transitions in styles.xml

Step 2: Set a Common Transition Name for Respective Views on Both Screens

For the transition to work across screens, you have to assign a common transition name to the shared elements (views) in both layouts. The views don’t have to be of the same type or have the same id, only the transition name must be same.

The transition name can be set using the android:transitionName attribute in xml or using the setTransitionName() method in Java.

Step 3: Open Activity with Element Transition

In order to get the transition effect, you have to specify a bundle of the shared elements and view from the source activity while starting the target activity.

When we specify the source view along with its corresponding transition name, it ensures that even if multiple views exist in the the source view hierarchy with the same transition name, it picks the correct view to start the animation from.

While specifying multiple shared elements transitions, make sure that you import android.support.v4.util.Pair. Please ensure that you do not overdo the transitions, as that can distract the user and degrade the user experience.

Step 4: Close Activity with Reverse Element Transition

In order to get the reverse element transition effect while finishing the second activity, you need to call the Activity.supportFinishAfterTransition() method instead of the Activity.finish() method. Also, you need to make sure that you override the Activity finish behavior everywhere in your activity, for example if you have a back button in your Toolbar or if the user presses device’s back button.

Shared Elements Transitions with Fragments

We can achieve shared elements transitions with Fragments as well.

Step 1: Set a Common Transition Name for Respective Views on Both Screens

Step 2: Define a Custom Transition:

Step 3: Specify the Shared Elements Transition in FragmentTransaction:

Custom Shared Elements Transitions:

In Android Lollipop (Android 5.0), the default shared elements transition is a combination of 4 transitions:

Change Bounds – It captures the layout bounds of target views before and after the scene change and animates those changes during the transition.
Change Transform – It captures scale and rotation for Views before and after the scene change and animates those changes during the transition.
Change Image Transform – It captures an ImageView’s matrix before and after the scene change and animates it during the transition.
Change Clip Bounds – It captures the getClipBounds() before and after the scene change and animates those changes during the transition.

In most cases, the default transition is sufficient. However, there might be cases in which you might want to customize the default behavior and define your own custom transitions.

You can set the window content transitions at runtime by calling the Window.requestFeature() method.

Exclude Elements from Window Content Transitions

Sometimes you might want to exclude the use of the status bar, ActionBar and navigation bar from the animation sequence. This might be particularly required when your shared elements are drawn on top of these views.

You can achieve this by excluding these elements from the transitions. This can be done by adding a <target> tag and specifying the ID of the element you want to exclude.

Shared Elements Transitions with Asynchronous Data Loading

There might be cases when the shared elements require data that might be loaded from a web API or URL. The most common example is when a URL needs to be loaded into an ImageView which also happens to be the shared element we want to animate. However, the shared element transition might get started by the framework before that data is received and rendered.

We can overcome this by temporarily delaying the transition until we know that the shared elements have been rendered with the fetched data.

We can delay the shared element transition by calling postponeEnterTransition() (For API >= 21) or supportPostponeEnterTransition() (For API < 21) in your second Activity’s onCreate() method.

Once you know that the shared elements have been rendered with the data, you can call startPostponedEnterTransition() (For API >= 21) or supportStartPostponedEnterTransition() (For API < 21) to resume the paused transition.

We can start the paused transition in an onPreDrawListener which is called after the view layout and before the view is about to be drawn.

Results

You can expect to see something like this once you are done with all of the steps above.

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Android: Applying Shared Element Transitions

Shared Elements Transitions with Fragments

Shared Elements Transitions with Asynchronous Data Loading

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What is SharePoint?

What is OneDrive?

SharePoint vs OneDrive for Business

Similarities between SharePoint and OneDrive for Business

CONCLUSION

Shared Elements Transitions with Fragments

Shared Elements Transitions with Asynchronous Data Loading

Results

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