How to animate gradient?

Question

How to animate gradient from color#1 to color#2? Something similar to

I\'m planning to use it as health-bar for unit (so, it will be finit animation starting

Answer 1

just rewrited @Krzysztof Misztal's answer to java :

public static void startAnimation(final int view, final Activity activity) {
        final int start = Color.parseColor("#FDB72B");
        final int mid = Color.parseColor("#88FDB72B");
        final int end = Color.TRANSPARENT;


        final ArgbEvaluator evaluator = new ArgbEvaluator();
        View preloader = activity.findViewById(R.id.gradientPreloaderView);
        preloader.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        final GradientDrawable gradient = (GradientDrawable) preloader.getBackground();

        ValueAnimator animator = TimeAnimator.ofFloat(0.0f, 1.0f);
        animator.setDuration(500);
        animator.setRepeatCount(ValueAnimator.INFINITE);
        animator.setRepeatMode(ValueAnimator.REVERSE);
        animator.addUpdateListener(new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() {
            @Override
            public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator valueAnimator) {
                Float fraction = valueAnimator.getAnimatedFraction();
                int newStrat = (int) evaluator.evaluate(fraction, start, end);
                int newMid = (int) evaluator.evaluate(fraction, mid, start);
                int newEnd = (int) evaluator.evaluate(fraction, end, mid);
                int[] newArray = {newStrat, newMid, newEnd};
                gradient.setColors(newArray);
            }
        });

        animator.start();
    }




public static void stopAnimation(final int view, final Activity activity){

    ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(activity.findViewById(view), "alpha", 0f).setDuration(125).start();
}

where the view is a simple View with gradient background:

//gradient_preloader


    

the view :

hope my answer will help