Swipe screen using AndEngine in Android Game - android

I'm new to AndEngine. I'm making a game,where I want to implement level selection.
Where I want to use swipe for all levels.
I know about swipe detection. But I don't know how can I implement swipe effect, like scenes are changing. I searched on internet a lot, but couldn't fine useful solution.
Do I have to make all sprite on one scene or make different scenes?
Any suggestion how to implement this?

You need to create different scenes and at runtime change t scene using
mEngine.setScene(myOtherScene);

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I'm making an Android Game using AndEngine. I'm making 5 levels in this puzzle game.
Now I want to implement level selection part.Where I'm planning to make 5 scenes and user can swipe them.
But I don't know how to implement swipe with its effect in Andengine.
Looking for some help.
Use the SurfaceGestureDetector in Andengine:
https://code.google.com/p/andengine/source/browse/src/org/anddev/andengine/input/touch/detector/SurfaceGestureDetector.java?r=7d81e830fea0a8bfaac9cc185301e9823ea38092
Here is the andengine forum post that introduced the SurfaceGestureDetector, which was integrated into andengine. You can see how to use it in the code provided.
http://www.andengine.org/forums/tutorials/scene-with-gesturedetector-t748.html

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I think that what you really want is a "swipe" gesture, which recognizes someone quickly moving their finger across the screen.
This answer describes a great way of implementing such a gesture, and you could possibly modify it to parameters that "feel" right for your slice.

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I am programming an android game that has a screen, which has a ScrollView that contains almost everything on the screen. I need to have image elements that move around, can be clicked on (but also be transparent to clicks in certain situations) that have multiple layers and animations.
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So even though this seems like pretty basic functionality, it seems like I have to write a game loop,etc and implement my own code to handle the "animation" (including some acceleration/deceleration), etc. Not hugely hard or anything, but just seems like overkill. Also using a 3rd party game engine also seems like overkill, just in the time it would take to learn that, and so on.
Am I off base here?
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