I have a ReyclerView
working with a LinearLayoutManager
and an Adapter<ViewHolder>
. I have a list of items I would like to display in the recyclerview with the insert (slide in) animation. How do I go about this ?
I would like to display the animations with a linearly increasing delay based on the index of the item.
Currently, if I use 2 buttons, 'add' and 'remove', and then do the respective operations on the recyclerview (notifyItemInserted()
and notifyItemRemoved()
, the animations come in nicely.
If I programmatically loop on the data set and add the items, again, using notifyItemInserted()
, I do not see any animation. I just see all the items appear almost at once.
If I use Asynctasks with linear delay, and then add/remove the item in OnPostExecute()
, I still do not see any animation. Also, I see a possibility of running into deadlocks if multiple insert threads are waiting on all remove threads to be completed (with no place for the remove threads to run).
What am I doing wrong ?
I have gone through most of the questions related to this on SO and have spent days poking around the animation part of the recyclerview, still no luck.
Below is how I add an animation in my Adapter
. This will animate a push effect, with the row coming in from the right.
First define the animation in xml (res/anim/push_left_in.xml
)
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<translate android:fromXDelta="100%p" android:toXDelta="0"
android:duration="300"/>
<alpha android:fromAlpha="0.0" android:toAlpha="1.0"
android:duration="300" />
</set>
Then set it in your Adapter as so
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
View row;
if (convertView == null) {
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(getContext());
row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.music_list_item, null);
} else {
row = convertView;
}
...
//Load the animation from the xml file and set it to the row
Animation animation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getContext(), R.anim.push_left_in);
animation.setDuration(500);
row.startAnimation(animation);
return row;
}
This animation will be displayed each time you add a new row, it should work in your case.
Edit
This is how you could add an animation using a RecyclerView
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position)
{
holder.text.setText(items.get(position));
// Here you apply the animation when the view is bound
setAnimation(holder.container, position);
}
/**
* Here is the key method to apply the animation
*/
private void setAnimation(View viewToAnimate, int position)
{
// If the bound view wasn't previously displayed on screen, it's animated
if (position > lastPosition)
{
Animation animation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(context, android.R.anim.push_left_in);
viewToAnimate.startAnimation(animation);
lastPosition = position;
}
}
Add this line to your RecyclerView xml:
android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
This works for me:
animation.setStartOffset(position*100);