Android: Expand/collapse animation

Question

Let's say I have a vertical linearLayout with :

[v1]
[v2]

By default v1 has visibily = GONE. I would like to show v1 with an expand animation and push down v2 at the same time.

I tried something like this:

Animation a = new Animation()
{
    int initialHeight;

    @Override
    protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
        final int newHeight = (int)(initialHeight * interpolatedTime);
        v.getLayoutParams().height = newHeight;
        v.requestLayout();
    }

    @Override
    public void initialize(int width, int height, int parentWidth, int parentHeight) {
        super.initialize(width, height, parentWidth, parentHeight);
        initialHeight = height;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean willChangeBounds() {
        return true;
    }
};

But with this solution, I have a blink when the animation starts. I think it's caused by v1 displaying full size before the animation is applied.

With javascript, this is one line of jQuery! Any simple way to do this with android?

Answer 1

I stumbled over the same problem today and I guess the real solution to this question is this

<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/container"
android:animateLayoutChanges="true"
...
 />

You will have to set this property for all topmost layouts, which are involved in the shift. If you now set the visibility of one layout to GONE, the other will take the space as the disappearing one is releasing it. There will be a default animation which is some kind of "fading out", but I think you can change this - but the last one I have not tested, for now.

Answer 2

This is really simple with droidQuery. For starts, consider this layout:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical" >
    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/v1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
            android:text="View 1" />
    </LinearLayout>
    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/v2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="0dp" >
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
            android:text="View 2" />
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
            android:text="View 3" />
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

We can animate the height to the desired value - say 100dp - using the following code:

//convert 100dp to pixel value
int height = (int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 100, getResources().getDisplayMetrics());

Then use droidQuery to animate. The simplest way is with this:

$.animate("{ height: " + height + "}", new AnimationOptions());

To make the animation more appealing, consider adding an easing:

$.animate("{ height: " + height + "}", new AnimationOptions().easing($.Easing.BOUNCE));

You can also change the duration on AnimationOptions using the duration() method, or handle what happens when the animation ends. For a complex example, try:

$.animate("{ height: " + height + "}", new AnimationOptions().easing($.Easing.BOUNCE)
                                                             .duration(1000)
                                                             .complete(new Function() {
                                                                 @Override
                                                                 public void invoke($ d, Object... args) {
                                                                     $.toast(context, "finished", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
                                                                 }
                                                             }));

Answer 3

public static void slide(View v, int speed, int pos) {
    v.animate().setDuration(speed);
    v.animate().translationY(pos);
    v.animate().start();
}

// slide down
slide(yourView, 250, yourViewHeight);
// slide up
slide(yourView, 250, 0);

Answer 4

I was trying to do what I believe was a very similar animation and found an elegant solution. This code assumes that you are always going from 0->h or h->0 (h being the maximum height). The three constructor parameters are view = the view to be animated (in my case, a webview), targetHeight = the maximum height of the view, and down = a boolean which specifies the direction (true = expanding, false = collapsing).

public class DropDownAnim extends Animation {
    private final int targetHeight;
    private final View view;
    private final boolean down;

    public DropDownAnim(View view, int targetHeight, boolean down) {
        this.view = view;
        this.targetHeight = targetHeight;
        this.down = down;
    }

    @Override
    protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
        int newHeight;
        if (down) {
            newHeight = (int) (targetHeight * interpolatedTime);
        } else {
            newHeight = (int) (targetHeight * (1 - interpolatedTime));
        }
        view.getLayoutParams().height = newHeight;
        view.requestLayout();
    }

    @Override
    public void initialize(int width, int height, int parentWidth,
            int parentHeight) {
        super.initialize(width, height, parentWidth, parentHeight);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean willChangeBounds() {
        return true;
    }
}

Answer 5

Make sure you have v1 set to have a layout height of zero right before the animation starts. You want to initialize your setup to look like the first frame of the animation before starting the animation.

Answer 6

I created version in which you don't need to specify layout height, hence it's a lot easier and cleaner to use. The solution is to get the height in the first frame of the animation (it's available at that moment, at least during my tests). This way you can provide a View with an arbitrary height and bottom margin.

There's also one little hack in the constructor - the bottom margin is set to -10000 so that the view stays hidden before the transformation (prevents flicker).

public class ExpandAnimation extends Animation {


    private View mAnimatedView;
    private ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams mViewLayoutParams;
    private int mMarginStart, mMarginEnd;

    public ExpandAnimation(View view) {
        mAnimatedView = view;
        mViewLayoutParams = (ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams) view.getLayoutParams();
        mMarginEnd = mViewLayoutParams.bottomMargin;
        mMarginStart = -10000; //hide before viewing by settings very high negative bottom margin (hack, but works nicely)
        mViewLayoutParams.bottomMargin = mMarginStart;
        mAnimatedView.setLayoutParams(mViewLayoutParams);
    }

    @Override
    protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
        super.applyTransformation(interpolatedTime, t);
            //view height is already known when the animation starts
            if(interpolatedTime==0){
                mMarginStart = -mAnimatedView.getHeight();
            }
            mViewLayoutParams.bottomMargin = (int)((mMarginEnd-mMarginStart) * interpolatedTime)+mMarginStart;
            mAnimatedView.setLayoutParams(mViewLayoutParams);
    }
}