# How can I make Native Transitions work in Ionic 2?

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-can-i-make-native-transitions-work-in-ionic-2/55992>\
**Category:** ionic-v3\
**Created:** [June 28, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-can-i-make-native-transitions-work-in-ionic-2/55992 "2016-06-28T03:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![kdenic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@kdenic](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/kdenic)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-can-i-make-native-transitions-work-in-ionic-2/55992/1 "2016-06-28T03:18:00Z")

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As mentioned here, [Native View Transition Animations](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/native-view-transition-animations/31422/26)  
Telerik’s native transition plugin does work with Ionic 1, but is it possible to make it work in Ionic 2? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-can-i-make-native-transitions-work-in-ionic-2/55992/2 "2016-06-28T21:16:16Z")

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You don’t need it for ionic 2, nor do you for ionic1 in that matter.  
We’re not going to support that plugin anyways.

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**Author:** ![mikemcelligott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@mikemcelligott](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mikemcelligott)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-can-i-make-native-transitions-work-in-ionic-2/55992/3 "2016-06-30T03:35:12Z")

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Some clarification would be great here. Why not?

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-can-i-make-native-transitions-work-in-ionic-2/55992/4 "2016-07-11T15:32:39Z")

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For the most part, animations have been completely reworked. They’re much more performant, smoother, and overall better in every way.

Also, the native transitions plugin, didn’t really transition states anyways. It was just a screenshot that was animated, and in my opinion, that was pretty hacky.

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**Author:** ![\_oliver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/da6949/32.png) [@\_oliver](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/_oliver)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-can-i-make-native-transitions-work-in-ionic-2/55992/5 "2017-02-02T07:54:34Z")

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> [@mhartington](#):
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> You don’t need it for ionic 2, nor do you for ionic1 in that matter.  
> We’re not going to support that plugin anyways.

Interesting.  
Do you care to explain this:  
[http://ionicframework.com/docs/v2/native/nativepagetransitions](http://ionicframework.com/docs/v2/native/nativepagetransitions)

And statements made here:

> [@NativePageTransitinons ¿bug? Cannot import from Ionic-native](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/nativepagetransitinons-bug-cannot-import-from-ionic-native/63293):
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> Hello team I am trying to use the NativePageTransition ([http://ionicframework.com/docs/v2/native/nativepagetransitions/](http://ionicframework.com/docs/v2/native/nativepagetransitions/)) from ‘ionic-native’. I make this steps: ionic plugin add com.telerik.plugins.nativepagetransitions In app.ts, after platform ready: import {NativePageTransitions, TransitionOptions} from ‘ionic-native’; But wstorm cannot resolve symbol ‘NativePageTransitions’ && ‘TransitionOptions’ Trying with wstorm auto-import results: import { TrasitionOptions} from ‘ionic-angular’; …

…in light of your response above.

I can’t yet comment on ionic2 screen transition performance especially given more complex UIs and throwing less powerful devices in the mix. However, ionic1 out of the box transitions given above scenarios was close to being unacceptable. Again, this may not apply to the average joe or plain vanilla apps.