Animation With AnimationSet() In Android

Question

OK here's the problem i have an ImageView in my activity, here's what it looks in main.xml:

Solution 1:

If I'm not mistaking, you're shooting for a sequence of animations.

Interestingly, once you start an AnimationSet, all the animations added are ran simultaneously and not sequentially; therefore you need to setStartOffset(long offSet) for each animation that follows the first animation.

Maybe something like this will work...

as = new AnimationSet(true);
as.setFillEnabled(true);
as.setInterpolator(new BounceInterpolator());

TranslateAnimation ta = new TranslateAnimation(-300, 100, 0, 0); 
ta.setDuration(2000);
as.addAnimation(ta);

TranslateAnimation ta2 = new TranslateAnimation(100, 0, 0, 0); 
ta2.setDuration(2000);
ta2.setStartOffset(2000); // allowing 2000 milliseconds for ta to finish
as.addAnimation(ta2);

Solution 2:

I suggest you to use ObjectAnimator. It is very easy to implement your case. Your animation may look like this:

ObjectAnimator animator1 = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(targetView, "translationX", -200f);
animator1.setRepeatCount(0);
animator1.setDuration(1000);

ObjectAnimator animator2 = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(targetView, "translationX", 100f);
animator2.setRepeatCount(0);
animator2.setDuration(1000);

ObjectAnimator animator3 = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(targetView, "translationX", 0f);
animator3.setRepeatCount(0);
animator3.setDuration(1000);

//sequencial animation
AnimatorSet set = new AnimatorSet();
set.play(animator1).before(animator2);
set.play(animator2).before(animator3);
set.start();