How to Animate Addition or Removal of Android ListView Rows

Question

Animation anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(
                     GoTransitApp.this, android.R.anim.slide_out_right
                 );
anim.setDuration(500);
listView.getChildAt(index).startAnimation(anim );

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {

    public void run() {

        FavouritesManager.getInstance().remove(
            FavouritesManager.getInstance().getTripManagerAtIndex(index)
        );
        populateList();
        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

    }

}, anim.getDuration());

for top-to-down animation use :

<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
        <translate android:fromYDelta="20%p" android:toYDelta="-20"
            android:duration="@android:integer/config_mediumAnimTime"/>
        <alpha android:fromAlpha="0.0" android:toAlpha="1.0"
            android:duration="@android:integer/config_mediumAnimTime" />
</set>

The RecyclerView takes care of adding, removing, and re-ordering animations!

This simple AndroidStudio project features a RecyclerView. take a look at the commits:

1. commit of the classic Hello World Android app
2. commit, adding a RecyclerView to the project (content not dynamic)
3. commit, adding functionality to modify content of RecyclerView at runtime (but no animations)
4. and finally...commit adding animations to the RecyclerView

Take a look at the Google solution. Here is a deletion method only.

ListViewRemovalAnimation project code and Video demonstration

It needs Android 4.1+ (API 16). But we have 2014 outside.

Since ListViews are highly optimized i think this is not possible to accieve. Have you tried to create your "ListView" by code (ie by inflating your rows from xml and appending them to a LinearLayout) and animate them?

Have you considered animating a sweep to the right? You could do something like drawing a progressively larger white bar across the top of the list item, then removing it from the list. The other cells would still jerk into place, but it'd better than nothing.

call listView.scheduleLayoutAnimation(); before changing the list

I hacked together another way to do it without having to manipulate list view. Unfortunately, regular Android Animations seem to manipulate the contents of the row, but are ineffectual at actually shrinking the view. So, first consider this handler:

private Handler handler = new Handler() {
@Override
public void handleMessage(Message message) {
    Bundle bundle = message.getData();

    View view = listView.getChildAt(bundle.getInt("viewPosition") - 
        listView.getFirstVisiblePosition());

    int heightToSet;
    if(!bundle.containsKey("viewHeight")) {
        Rect rect = new Rect();
        view.getDrawingRect(rect);
        heightToSet = rect.height() - 1;
    } else {
        heightToSet = bundle.getInt("viewHeight");
    }

    setViewHeight(view, heightToSet);

    if(heightToSet == 1)
        return;

    Message nextMessage = obtainMessage();
    bundle.putInt("viewHeight", (heightToSet - 5 > 0) ? heightToSet - 5 : 1);
    nextMessage.setData(bundle);
    sendMessage(nextMessage);
}

Add this collection to your List adapter:

private Collection<Integer> disabledViews = new ArrayList<Integer>();

and add

public boolean isEnabled(int position) {
   return !disabledViews.contains(position);
}

Next, wherever it is that you want to hide a row, add this:

Message message = handler.obtainMessage();
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putInt("viewPosition", listView.getPositionForView(view));
message.setData(bundle);
handler.sendMessage(message);    
disabledViews.add(listView.getPositionForView(view));

That's it! You can change the speed of the animation by altering the number of pixels that it shrinks the height at once. Not real sophisticated, but it works!