Android Animation one after other

I wrote about a new approach to animate multiple objects in Android one after another. For example, 6 ImageButtons and 6 TextViews. I decided to duplicate this solution in my blog.

My approach to reach this goal can be useful when you need to animate a lot of views one after another. You can use `setStartOffset` method to set a delay before animation begins. So, if you know, how much time will take for your first animation to end, you can set this as a delay for your second animation. This is an example where I animated six `ImageButtons` and six `TextViews` below them one after another:

    public void animateButtons() {
    	// An array of buttons
        int[] imageButtonIds = {R.id.searchButton, R.id.favoriteButton, R.id.responseButton, R.id.articleButton, R.id.resumeButton, R.id.subscribeButton};
        // Array of textViews
        int[] textViewIds = {R.id.searchTextView, R.id.favoriteTextView, R.id.responseTextView, R.id.articleTextView, R.id.resumeTextView, R.id.subscribeTextView};

        int i = 1;

        for (int viewId : imageButtonIds) {

            ImageButton imageButton = (ImageButton) findViewById(viewId);
            // Animation from a file fade.xml in folder res/anim
            Animation fadeAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.fade);
            // Delay for each animation is 100 ms bigger than for previous one
            fadeAnimation.setStartOffset(i * 100);
            imageButton.startAnimation(fadeAnimation);
            
            // The same animation is for textViews
            int textViewId = textViewIds[i-1];
            TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(textViewId);
            textView.startAnimation(fadeAnimation);
            
            i ++;
        }
    }

In my `res/anim` folder I have a file, called `fade.xml` with these contents:

Here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3519682/android-animation-one-after-other is this post and two other approaches – using AnimationSet and using listeners.