[android] How to animate button in android?

I am making an android app, and I have a button which leads to a messaging place. On the activity with the button, I check if there is any unread messages, and if so I want to do something to the button to let the user know that there is something unread.

I was thinking of having the button sorta vibrate horizontally like 3 shakes every 2 or 3 seconds.

I know how to run a thread in the background which does something every x milliseconds. But what I don't know what to do is shake it horizontally 3 times.

Can anyone help with this?

I was thinking of using the sin function, for the animation, I can use output from a sin function to get values that go up and down, which I can set the horizontal position of the button... But this seems too extreme, is there a better way?

import android.view.View;
import android.view.animation.Animation;
import android.view.animation.Transformation;

public class HeightAnimation extends Animation {
    protected final int originalHeight;
    protected final View view;
    protected float perValue;

    public HeightAnimation(View view, int fromHeight, int toHeight) {
        this.view = view;
        this.originalHeight = fromHeight;
        this.perValue = (toHeight - fromHeight);
    }

    @Override
    protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
        view.getLayoutParams().height = (int) (originalHeight + perValue * interpolatedTime);
        view.requestLayout();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean willChangeBounds() {
        return true;
    }
}

uss to:

HeightAnimation heightAnim = new HeightAnimation(view, view.getHeight(), viewPager.getHeight() - otherView.getHeight());
heightAnim.setDuration(1000);
view.startAnimation(heightAnim);

I can't comment on @omega's comment because I don't have enough reputation but the answer to that question should be something like:

shake.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rotate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:duration="100"          <!-- how long the animation lasts -->
    android:fromDegrees="-5"        <!-- how far to swing left -->
    android:pivotX="50%"            <!-- pivot from horizontal center -->
    android:pivotY="50%"            <!-- pivot from vertical center -->
    android:repeatCount="10"        <!-- how many times to swing back and forth -->
    android:repeatMode="reverse"    <!-- to make the animation go the other way -->
    android:toDegrees="5" />        <!-- how far to swing right -->

Class.java

Animation shake = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.shake);
view.startAnimation(shake);

This is just one way of doing what you want, there may be better methods out there.

create shake.xml in anim folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<translate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:fromXDelta="0" 
        android:toXDelta="10" 
            android:duration="1000" 
                android:interpolator="@anim/cycle" />

and cycle.xml in anim folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<cycleInterpolator xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:cycles="4" />

now add animation on your code

Animation shake = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.shake);
anyview.startAnimation(shake);

If you want vertical animation, change fromXdelta and toXdelta value to fromYdelta and toYdelta value

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.layout_with_the_button);

    final Animation myAnim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.milkshake);
    Button myButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_game_btn);
    myButton.setAnimation(myAnim);
}

For onClick of the Button

myButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        v.startAnimation(myAnim);
    }
});

Create the anim folder in res directory

Right click on, res -> New -> Directory

Name the new Directory anim

create a new xml file name it milkshake

milkshake.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <rotate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:duration="100"
        android:fromDegrees="-5"
        android:pivotX="50%"
        android:pivotY="50%"
        android:repeatCount="10"
        android:repeatMode="reverse"
        android:toDegrees="5" />

Dependency

Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

allprojects {
repositories {
    ...
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
}}

and then add dependency dependencies { compile 'com.github.varunest:sparkbutton:1.0.5' }

Usage

XML

<com.varunest.sparkbutton.SparkButton
        android:id="@+id/spark_button"
        android:layout_width="40dp"
        android:layout_height="40dp"
        app:sparkbutton_activeImage="@drawable/active_image"
        app:sparkbutton_inActiveImage="@drawable/inactive_image"
        app:sparkbutton_iconSize="40dp"
        app:sparkbutton_primaryColor="@color/primary_color"
        app:sparkbutton_secondaryColor="@color/secondary_color" />

Java (Optional)

SparkButton button  = new SparkButtonBuilder(context)
            .setActiveImage(R.drawable.active_image)
            .setInActiveImage(R.drawable.inactive_image)
            .setDisabledImage(R.drawable.disabled_image)
            .setImageSizePx(getResources().getDimensionPixelOffset(R.dimen.button_size))
            .setPrimaryColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.primary_color))
            .setSecondaryColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.secondary_color))
            .build();