How to stop an animation (cancel() does not work)

Question

I need to stop a running translate animation. The .cancel() method of Animation has no effect; the animation goes until the end anyway.

How

Answer 1

To stop animation you may set such objectAnimator that do nothing, e.g.

first when manual flipping there is animation left to right:

flipper.setInAnimation(leftIn);
flipper.setOutAnimation(rightOut);

then when switching to auto flipping there's no animation

flipper.setInAnimation(doNothing);
flipper.setOutAnimation(doNothing);

doNothing = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(flipper, "x", 0f, 0f).setDuration(flipperSwipingDuration);