Apply an Animation on a Drawable in Android

Question

I am adding a glow animation effect to a logo. So far, I have managed to get the glow image behind the logo, using a LayeredDrawable, but I can't figure out how to animate it. I have found that AlphaAnimation would achieve the desired effect, but unfortunately I can only apply it on Views, not Drawables. How can I achieve this effect?

Answer 1

Simple example

final ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.animatedImage);
final Button animated = (Button) findViewById(R.id.animated);
animated.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        Drawable drawable = imageView.getDrawable();
        if (drawable.getAlpha() == 0) {
            ObjectAnimator animator = ObjectAnimator.ofPropertyValuesHolder(drawable, PropertyValuesHolder.ofInt("alpha", 255));
            animator.setTarget(drawable);
            animator.setDuration(2000);
            animator.start();
        } else {
            ObjectAnimator animator = ObjectAnimator.ofPropertyValuesHolder(drawable, PropertyValuesHolder.ofInt("alpha", 0));
            animator.setTarget(drawable);
            animator.setDuration(2000);
            animator.start();
        }
    }
});

Method getAlpha() add in api 19. But it's not a big restriction, you can save the status in a local variable. ObjectAnimator add in Android 3.0 (api 11),maybe old version Android you can use nineoldandroids. I didn't test with nineoldandroids.

Answer 2

Android 3.0 introduced Property Animations.

Unfortunately, this is limited to Android 3.0 and up which won't get on phones any time soon.

Answer 3

Thank you @AndreyNick, it works like a charm! I've used it also for a LayerDrawable for animating just one Drawable (a layer) into it. This is the code, maybe could be useful for someone:

Drawable[] layers = new Drawable[2];
layers[0] = new ColorDrawable(Color.RED);
BitmapDrawable bd = new BitmapDrawable(activity.getResources(), bitmap);
bd.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
Drawable drawLogo = bd;
layers[1] = drawLogo;
LayerDrawable layerDrawable = new LayerDrawable(layers);

layers[1].setAlpha(0);

((AppCompatActivity) activity).getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(layerDrawable);

ObjectAnimator animator = ObjectAnimator.ofPropertyValuesHolder(layers[1], PropertyValuesHolder.ofInt("alpha", 255));
animator.setTarget(layers[1]);
animator.setDuration(2000);
animator.start();

I needed to create a drawable for the Action Bar with:

• a layer (0) which is a background color and
• a layer (1) with the logo in the middle of it (with fade animation)

I load the logo with Picasso and I like to animate it when has been loaded (bitmap onBitmapLoaded callback).

I hope this could help!