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.<\/p>\n
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:<\/p>\n
\r\n public void animateButtons() {\r\n \t\/\/ An array of buttons\r\n int[] imageButtonIds = {R.id.searchButton, R.id.favoriteButton, R.id.responseButton, R.id.articleButton, R.id.resumeButton, R.id.subscribeButton};\r\n \/\/ Array of textViews\r\n int[] textViewIds = {R.id.searchTextView, R.id.favoriteTextView, R.id.responseTextView, R.id.articleTextView, R.id.resumeTextView, R.id.subscribeTextView};\r\n\r\n int i = 1;\r\n\r\n for (int viewId : imageButtonIds) {\r\n\r\n ImageButton imageButton = (ImageButton) findViewById(viewId);\r\n \/\/ Animation from a file fade.xml in folder res\/anim\r\n Animation fadeAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.fade);\r\n \/\/ Delay for each animation is 100 ms bigger than for previous one\r\n fadeAnimation.setStartOffset(i * 100);\r\n imageButton.startAnimation(fadeAnimation);\r\n \r\n \/\/ The same animation is for textViews\r\n int textViewId = textViewIds[i-1];\r\n TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(textViewId);\r\n textView.startAnimation(fadeAnimation);\r\n \r\n i ++;\r\n }\r\n }\r\n<\/pre>\nIn my `res\/anim` folder I have a file, called `fade.xml` with these contents: <\/p>\n
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