How to Animate Addition or Removal of Android ListView Rows

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In iOS  there is a very easy and powerful facility to animate the addition and removal of UITableView rows  here s a clip from a youtube video showing the default animation   Note how the surrounding rows collapse onto the deleted row   This animation helps users keep track of what changed in a list and where in the list they were looking at when the data changed   Since I ve been developing on Android I ve found no equivalent facility to animate individual rows in a TableView   Calling notifyDataSetChanged   on my Adapter causes the ListView to immediately update its content with new information   I d like to show a simple animation of a new row pushing in or sliding out when the data changes  but I can t find any documented way to do this   It looks like LayoutAnimationController might hold a key to getting this to work  but when I set a LayoutAnimationController on my ListView  similar to ApiDemo s LayoutAnimation2  and remove elements from my adapter after the list has displayed  the elements disappear immediately instead of getting animated out   I ve also tried things like the following to animate an individual item when it is removed    Override protected void onListItemClick ListView l  View v  final int position  long id        Animation animation   new ScaleAnimation 1  1  1  0       animation setDuration 100       getListView   getChildAt position  startAnimation animation       l postDelayed new Runnable             public void run                 mStringList remove position               mAdapter notifyDataSetChanged                     100       However  the rows surrounding the animated row don t move position until they jump to their new positions when notifyDataSetChanged   is called   It appears ListView doesn t update its layout once its elements have been placed   While writing my own implementation fork of ListView has crossed my mind  this seems like something that shouldn t be so difficult   Thanks

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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

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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

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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     lt set xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt           lt translate android fromYDelta  20 p  android toYDelta  -20              android duration   android integer config mediumAnimTime   gt           lt alpha android fromAlpha  0 0  android toAlpha  1 0              android duration   android integer config mediumAnimTime    gt   lt  set gt

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I have done something similar to this  One approach is to interpolate over the animation time the height of the view over time inside the rows onMeasure while issuing requestLayout   for the listView  Yes it may be be better to do inside the listView code directly but it was a quick solution  that looked good

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I haven t tried it but it looks like animateLayoutChanges should do what you re looking for  I see it in the ImageSwitcher class  I assume it s in the ViewSwitcher class as well

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The RecyclerView takes care of adding  removing  and re-ordering animations     This simple AndroidStudio project features a RecyclerView  take a look at the commits    commit of the classic Hello World Android app commit  adding a RecyclerView to the project  content not dynamic  commit  adding functionality to modify content of RecyclerView at runtime  but no animations  and finally   commit adding animations to the RecyclerView

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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

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Just sharing another approach   First set the list view s android animateLayoutChanges to true    lt ListView         android id    id items list          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  match parent          android animateLayoutChanges  true   gt    Then I use a handler to add items and update the listview with delay   Handler mHandler   new Handler          delay in milliseconds     private int mInitialDelay   1000      private final int DELAY OFFSET   1000    public void addItem final Integer item        mHandler postDelayed new Runnable              Override         public void run                 new Thread new Runnable                      Override                 public void run                         mDataSet add item                       runOnUiThread new Runnable                              Override                         public void run                                 mAdapter notifyDataSetChanged                                                                                       start                      mInitialDelay       mInitialDelay    DELAY OFFSET

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Here s the source code to let you delete rows and reorder them   A demo APK file is also available  Deleting rows is done more along the lines of Google s Gmail app that reveals a bottom view after swiping a top view  The bottom view can have an Undo button or whatever you want

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As i had explained my approach in my site i shared the link Anyways the idea is create bitmaps  by getdrawingcache  have two bitmap and animate the lower bitmap to create the moving effect  Please see the following code   listView setOnItemClickListener new AdapterView OnItemClickListener                 public void onItemClick AdapterView lt   gt  parent  View rowView  int positon  long id                        listView setDrawingCacheEnabled true                 listView buildDrawingCache true               bitmap   listView getDrawingCache                myBitmap1   Bitmap createBitmap bitmap  0  0  bitmap getWidth    rowView getBottom                 myBitmap2   Bitmap createBitmap bitmap  0  rowView getBottom    bitmap getWidth    bitmap getHeight   - myBitmap1 getHeight                 listView setDrawingCacheEnabled false               imgView1 setBackgroundDrawable new BitmapDrawable getResources    myBitmap1                imgView2 setBackgroundDrawable new BitmapDrawable getResources    myBitmap2                imgView1 setVisibility View VISIBLE               imgView2 setVisibility View VISIBLE               RelativeLayout LayoutParams lp   new RelativeLayout LayoutParams RelativeLayout LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT  RelativeLayout LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT               lp setMargins 0  rowView getBottom    0  0               imgView2 setLayoutParams lp               TranslateAnimation transanim   new TranslateAnimation 0  0  0  -rowView getHeight                 transanim setDuration 400               transanim setAnimationListener new Animation AnimationListener                                 public void onAnimationStart Animation animation                                                       public void onAnimationRepeat Animation animation                                                       public void onAnimationEnd Animation animation                                        imgView1 setVisibility View GONE                       imgView2 setVisibility View GONE                                                 array remove positon               adapter notifyDataSetChanged                imgView2 startAnimation transanim                       For understanding with images see this   Thanks

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After inserting new row to ListView  I just scroll the ListView to new position    ListView smoothScrollToPosition position

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Since Android is open source  you don t actually need to reimplement ListView s optimizations  You can grab ListView s code and try to find a way to hack in the animation  you can also open a feature request in android bug tracker  and if you decided to implement it  don t forget to contribute a patch     FYI  the ListView source code is here

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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  gt  0    heightToSet - 5   1       nextMessage setData bundle       sendMessage nextMessage       Add this collection to your List adapter   private Collection lt Integer gt  disabledViews   new ArrayList lt Integer gt       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

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call  listView scheduleLayoutAnimation    before changing the list

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