Android Animation one after other

Question

I have two TranslateAnimations on a TextView and I want them to execute one after other. However, by using the code below, only the second one is executed.

How can I solve this?

TranslateAnimation animation = new TranslateAnimation(
    Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f, Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f,
    Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f, Animation.ABSOLUTE, -150.0f);
animation.setDuration(200);
wave.startAnimation(animation);

TranslateAnimation animation1 = new TranslateAnimation(
    Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f, Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f,
    Animation.ABSOLUTE, 150.0f, Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f);
animation1.setDuration(200);
wave.startAnimation(animation1);

Answer 1

If you use code, you can call

Animation.setStartOffset() 

to delay the second animation.

if you use xml you can android:ordering="sequentially" property to make the two animations perform sequentially.

Answer 2

Create an animation array and use method for creating AnimationSet.

    Animation[] animations = { 
            getScaleAnimation(0.4f, 1.3f, 2000), 
            getScaleAnimation(1.3f, 1.0f, 500), 
            getScaleAnimation(0.4f, 1.3f, 1000),
            getScaleAnimation(1.3f, 1.0f, 3000), 
            getScaleAnimation(0.4f, 1.3f, 500), 
            getScaleAnimation(1.3f, 1.0f, 1700), 
            getScaleAnimation(0.4f, 1.3f, 2100),
            getScaleAnimation(1.3f, 1.0f, 3400)  
    };
    AnimationSet animationSet = addAnimationAr(animations);
    view.startAnimation(animationSet);

Method:

public static AnimationSet addAnimationAr(Animation[] animations) {
    AnimationSet animationSet = new AnimationSet(false);
    long totalAnimationDuration = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < animations.length; i++) {
        Animation a = animations[i];
        a.setStartOffset(totalAnimationDuration);
        totalAnimationDuration += a.getDuration();
        animationSet.addAnimation(a);
    }

    return animationSet;
}

Answer 3

also you can do this by XML itself using android:startOffset attribute , and there is an examble:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <scale
        android:duration="300"
        android:fromXScale="0%"
        android:fromYScale="0%"
        android:pivotX="50%"
        android:pivotY="50%"
        android:toXScale="100%"
        android:toYScale="100%" />
    <alpha
        android:duration="300"
        android:fromAlpha="0"
        android:toAlpha=".5" />
    <alpha
        android:duration="300"
        android:fromAlpha=".5"
        android:startOffset="300"
        android:toAlpha="1" />

</set>

Answer 4

Link them together with Animation Set

AnimationSet as = new AnimationSet(true)
TranslateAnimation animation = new TranslateAnimation(
Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f, Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f,
Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f, Animation.ABSOLUTE, -150.0f);
animation.setDuration(200);
as.addAnimation(animation);

TranslateAnimation animation1 = new TranslateAnimation(
Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f, Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f,
Animation.ABSOLUTE, 150.0f, Animation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f);
animation1.setDuration(200);
animation1.setStartOffset(200);
as.addAnimation(animation1);

wave.startAnimation(as);

Answer 5

EDIT: Andy Boots answer below is the better answer imo.

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Just set your first one like this and it'll start the other one, once the animation finishes:

animation.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {

        @Override
        public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
            wave.startAnimation(animation1);

        }
    });

edit: The reason only your second animation is executed with your current code, is because it overrides the playing of the first animation (both actually are played, but you only see the latest one to start). If you do like I wrote, they will play sequentially instead of in parallel.

Answer 6

There is one more approach to reach this goal which can be useful when you need to animate a lot of views one after another. You can use setStartOffset method to set a delay before animation begins. So, if you know, how much time will take for your first animation to end, you can set this as a delay for your second animation. This is an example where I animated six ImageButtons and six TextViews below them one after another:

public void animateButtons() {
    // An array of buttons
    int[] imageButtonIds = {R.id.searchButton, R.id.favoriteButton, R.id.responseButton, R.id.articleButton, R.id.resumeButton, R.id.subscribeButton};
    // Array of textViews
    int[] textViewIds = {R.id.searchTextView, R.id.favoriteTextView, R.id.responseTextView, R.id.articleTextView, R.id.resumeTextView, R.id.subscribeTextView};

    int i = 1;

    for (int viewId : imageButtonIds) {

        ImageButton imageButton = (ImageButton) findViewById(viewId);
        // Animation from a file fade.xml in folder res/anim
        Animation fadeAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.fade);
        // Delay for each animation is 100 ms bigger than for previous one
        fadeAnimation.setStartOffset(i * 100);
        imageButton.startAnimation(fadeAnimation);

        // The same animation is for textViews
        int textViewId = textViewIds[i-1];
        TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(textViewId);
        textView.startAnimation(fadeAnimation);

        i ++;
    }
}

In my res/anim folder I have a file, called fade.xml with these contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!--  Fade animation with 500 ms duration -->

<alpha xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
       android:interpolator="@android:anim/accelerate_decelerate_interpolator"
       android:fromAlpha="0.0" android:toAlpha="1.0"
       android:duration="500" />