I want to animate the alpha property of a ViewGroup's background Drawable.
I get a reference to the background's drawable using view.getBackground().
Then I use the following code (from this thread):
if (backgroundDrawable.getAlpha() == 0) {
ObjectAnimator animator = ObjectAnimator.ofPropertyValuesHolder(backgroundDrawable, PropertyValuesHolder.ofInt("alpha", 255));
animator.setTarget(backgroundDrawable);
animator.setDuration(2000);
animator.start();
} else {
ObjectAnimator animator = ObjectAnimator.ofPropertyValuesHolder(backgroundDrawable, PropertyValuesHolder.ofInt("alpha", 0));
animator.setTarget(backgroundDrawable);
animator.setDuration(2000);
animator.start();
}
But the animation always starts from the alpha value 0. (meaning, when I want to animate to 0, it disappears immediately, because it animates from 0 to 0).
Does anyone know how I can make this work?