The CreativeEditor SDK includes a flipping feature that you can add to your Android app. Flipping is a powerful transformation that Android photo apps use for creating mirror effects, correcting orientation, and achieving symmetrical layouts. Learn in this guide how to implement both interactive flip controls and programmatic flipping, through clean Kotlin APIs.
Flip features#
The flip feature enables the following actions:
- Horizontal and vertical image mirroring
- Integration with template systems and creative workflows
- Programmatic flip state management and toggling
Flip applications#
Implement flipping for:
- Correcting selfie camera orientation in Android camera apps
- Creating mirror effects for product photography
- Building symmetrical design layouts and compositions
Flip horizontally or vertically#
Use the flip/horizontal and flip/vertical properties to control mirroring. These are boolean properties with defined helper functions. All flips occur around the center point of a block.
engine.block.setFlipVertical(imageBlock, true)engine.block.setFlipHorizontal(imageBlock, true)To determine if a block has been flipped, you can either:
- Query the properties.
- Use helper functions.
val isFlippedVertical = engine.block.getFlipVertical(imageBlock)val isFlippedHorizontal = engine.block.getFlipHorizontal(imageBlock)Toggle flipping#
To toggle the flip state, the code reads the current flip value and sets it to its opposite:
val currentVerticalFlip = engine.block.getFlipVertical(imageBlock)engine.block.setFlipVertical(imageBlock, !currentVerticalFlip)
val currentHorizontalFlip = engine.block.getFlipHorizontal(imageBlock)engine.block.setFlipHorizontal(imageBlock, !currentHorizontalFlip)Reset flipping#
To reset all flips:
engine.block.setFlipVertical(imageBlock, false)engine.block.setFlipHorizontal(imageBlock, false)Flip multiple elements#
Group elements to flip them together:
val groupId = engine.block.group(listOf(imageBlock, textBlock))engine.block.setFlipHorizontal(groupId, true)