Rotating image. Animation list or animated rotate? (Android)

Question

I want to create a rotating progress image, and wonder what\'s the best way to proceed. I can make it work with an animation list with for example 12 images changing every 1

Answer 1

I found vokilam's answer to be the best one to create a nice stepped/staggered animation. I went for his final suggestion and made a custom widget, the only problem I encountered was that setting visibility wouldn't work because it was animated and thus would always be visible...

I adjusted his code (ProgressView.java which I renamed StaggeredProgress.java) like this:

public class StaggeredProgress extends ImageView {

private Animation staggered;

public StaggeredProgress(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    setAnimation(attrs);
}

public StaggeredProgress(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    setAnimation(attrs);
}

public StaggeredProgress(Context context) {
    super(context);
}

private void setAnimation(AttributeSet attrs) {
    TypedArray a = getContext().obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.StaggeredProgress);
    int frameCount = a.getInt(R.styleable.StaggeredProgress_frameCount, 12);  
    int duration = a.getInt(R.styleable.StaggeredProgress_duration, 1000);
    a.recycle();

    setAnimation(frameCount, duration);
}

public void setAnimation(final int frameCount, final int duration) {
    Animation a = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getContext(), R.anim.progress_anim);
    a.setDuration(duration);
    a.setInterpolator(new Interpolator() {

        @Override
        public float getInterpolation(float input) {
            return (float)Math.floor(input*frameCount)/frameCount;
        }
    });
    staggered = a;
    //startAnimation(a);
}

@Override
public void setVisibility(int visibility) {
    super.setVisibility(visibility);
    if( visibility == View.VISIBLE )
        startAnimation(staggered);
    else
        clearAnimation();

}


}

This way setting the view's visibility starts and stops the animation as required...Many thanks again to vokilam!