Android allows you to animate a view easily. In this tip, I am going to show you how to animate a TextView by changing its current position, and by changing its opacity.
To animate the TextView by changing its current position, you can use the translationX and translationY methods of the ViewPropertyAnimator object. The ViewPropertyAnimator can be obtained by calling the aminate method of the TextView. The translationX method moves the TextView to a new X value(X axis) while the translationY moves the TextView to a new Y value (Y axis).

You can animate the TextView by changing its opacity. This task is done with the alpha method. Zero alpha value means completely transparent and one alpha value is completely opaque.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
     android:id="@+id/container"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="match_parent"
     android:orientation="vertical"
     android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
     android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
     android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
     android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
     tools:context=".MainActivity"
    
      >
  
     <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="20sp"
          />
  
  </LinearLayout>

  package com.example.andtip;
  
  import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.content.Context;
  import android.content.Intent;
  import android.graphics.Point;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.view.Display;
  import android.view.Menu;
  
  import android.widget.TextView;
  
  import android.view.View;
  
  
  
  	public class MainActivity extends Activity {
  	TextView tv;
  	Point size;

      @TargetApi (16) 
      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
     	//TODO Auto-generated method stub
     	super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
     	setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
     	context=this;
     }
      @Override
      public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
          getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);      
          return true;
      }
  
      public void onStart(){
     	 super.onStart();
     	 tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.text_view);
     	 tv.setText("Animating the TextView...");   	
     	 // get screen size
     	 Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
     	 size = new Point();
     	 display.getSize(size);   
       // animate the textview	 
     	 tv.animate().translationY(size.y/2).withStartAction(new Runnable(){
     		 	public void run(){
     		 		tv.animate().translationY(size.y/4).alpha(0.5f);
     		 			}
     		 
     	 			}
     	 
     			 );
     	 
      }
  }
      

Posted by: Dara | post date: 07-01-2014 | Subject: Android Apps Development