I use these easy functions, it work like jquery slideUp slideDown, use it in an helper class, just pass your view :
public static void expand(final View v) {
v.measure(WindowManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
final int targetHeight = v.getMeasuredHeight();
// Older versions of android (pre API 21) cancel animations for views with a height of 0.
v.getLayoutParams().height = 1;
v.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
Animation a = new Animation()
{
@Override
protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
v.getLayoutParams().height = interpolatedTime == 1
? WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT
: (int)(targetHeight * interpolatedTime);
v.requestLayout();
}
@Override
public boolean willChangeBounds() {
return true;
}
};
// 1dp/ms
a.setDuration((int) (targetHeight / v.getContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density));
v.startAnimation(a);
}
public static void collapse(final View v) {
final int initialHeight = v.getMeasuredHeight();
Animation a = new Animation()
{
@Override
protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
if(interpolatedTime == 1){
v.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}else{
v.getLayoutParams().height = initialHeight - (int)(initialHeight * interpolatedTime);
v.requestLayout();
}
}
@Override
public boolean willChangeBounds() {
return true;
}
};
// 1dp/ms
a.setDuration((int)(initialHeight / v.getContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density));
v.startAnimation(a);
}