Animate change of view background color on Android

Question

How do you animate the change of background color of a view on Android?

For example:

I have a view with a red background color. The background color of the

Answer 1

Another easy way to achieve this is to perform a fade using AlphaAnimation.

1. Make your view a ViewGroup
2. Add a child view to it at index 0, with match_parent layout dimensions
3. Give your child the same background as the container
4. Change to background of the container to the target color
5. Fade out the child using AlphaAnimation.
6. Remove the child when the animation is complete (using an AnimationListener)