How to chain animation in android to the same view?

Question

I got some text views and I want to make the buzz effect of MSN.

My plan is:

• take the view, let say 10dip to the left,
• take it back to its start position
• after that take it 10dip up
• then back
• down back
• left... and so on.

My point is, I have some sequence of movements that I want to set to one view and that needs to execute one after another.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

Use an AnimationSet:

AnimationSet set = new AnimationSet(true);

Animation animation = new AlphaAnimation(0.0f, 1.0f);
animation.setDuration(100);
set.addAnimation(animation);

animation = new TranslateAnimation(
    Animation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, 0.0f, Animation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, 0.0f,
    Animation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, -1.0f, Animation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, 0.0f
);
animation.setDuration(500);
set.addAnimation(animation);

view.startAnimation( set );