Android, setVisibility/animation issue

Tar.Aldarion

I have a linearLayout that disappears when I hit a button, it comes back when I press the button again. But it does it so fast, it doesn't look nice. I do this via:

disappearView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
I would like to add some animation... If I just set visibity to invisible the space where the layout was is still there. So I tried this:

if (disappearView.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE){
            Animation out = AnimationUtils.makeOutAnimation(this, true);
            disappearView.startAnimation(out);
            disappearView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
            disappearView.setVisibility(View.GONE);

        }
        else {
            Animation in = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, android.R.anim.fade_in);
            disappearView.startAnimation(in);
            disappearView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);      
        }

This does the animation too fast and disappears. You can't see it at all. Do I need to use a thread to start gone after invisible is set...or a delay? Or is there a better way of doing all this?

Atomic Pineapple

I think you have to calculate your own animation for this. See this link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2634073/how-do-i-animate-view-setvisibilitygone

Tar.Aldarion

I was looking at that way yeah, might try it as an improvement later but the method I have above does an animation that I like fine out of the box, which is handier! When that animation is done I want to call disappearView.setVisibility(View.GONE); All i need is some way to see that the previous command is done, or implement a small delay. The way it is now, in the middle of the animation disappearView.setVisibility(View.GONE); gets called and the layout disappears too fast.

Atomic Pineapple

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I was looking at that way yeah, might try it as an improvement later but the method I have above does an animation that I like fine out of the box, which is handier! When that animation is done I want to call disappearView.setVisibility(View.GONE); All i need is some way to see that the previous command is done, or implement a small delay. The way it is now, in the middle of the animation disappearView.setVisibility(View.GONE); gets called and the layout disappears too fast.

Ah OK, have you tried using an AnimationListener to detect the end of the animation? Not sure if it can be used with AnimationUtils though.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/animation/Animation.AnimationListener.html

Tar.Aldarion

Yeah thanks that's what I got suggested also but cant seem to get them working together yet. I tried making a thread to wait for a second but it just crashed the app, damn.

Tar.Aldarion

Got it working with onAnimationEnd, great thanks.