Animate each item of Listview when displaying

Question

I am trying to show listview elments in a manner that each one of them animates and then become visible so after one by one they animate and get visible to user. but When I implemented the animation, its not working on individial item, but working on the whole listview :(

public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater) activity.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        View row =layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.categories_row, parent, false);




        tvCatName = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.tvCatName);

        tvCatName.setText(Data.alCategoriesModels.get(position).catname);


        row.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                Toasts.pop(activity, "Category id :  " + Data.alCategoriesModels.get(position).catID); 

            }
        });

//      row.setAnimation(animation);
        row.startAnimation(animation);

        return row;
    }

How to make one by one animation on each element of list view. I am extend ArrayAdapter.

Answer 1

You can apply a android:layoutAnimation on the ListView.

• Create your animation XML file in anim folder. For example (slide_right_in.xml):

  <translate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:fillAfter="true"
      android:duration="400"
      android:fromXDelta="-100%"
      android:toXDelta="0%"/>
  

• Create another animation XML file with root element layoutAnimation :(my_layout_animation.xml)

  <layoutAnimation xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:animation="@anim/slide_right_in"
      android:delay="0.5"/>
  

• Apply it on any ViewGroup you want. For example ListView:

  <ListView
      android:layoutAnimation = "@anim/my_layout_animation"
      ... />