If you only want to animate the height of a view (from say 0 to a certain number) you could implement your own animation:
final View v = getTheViewToAnimateHere();
Animation anim=new Animation(){
protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
super.applyTransformation(interpolatedTime, t);
// Do relevant calculations here using the interpolatedTime that runs from 0 to 1
v.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, (int)(30*interpolatedTime)));
}};
anim.setDuration(500);
v.startAnimation(anim);