Repeat android animation

Question

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.vitesse);

    gpsManager = new GPSManager();

         


        

Answer 1

Android gives you elegant mechanisms to represent the loading process. You could use an indeterminate ProgressBar, or an ImageView with a scale/alpha animation, instead of animating the TextView itself.

Maybe you might find this animation useful, for animating alpha and scale at the same time. Vary the parameters for your preference:

file R.anim.alpha_scale_animation

then to launch it in your code:

Animation connectingAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getContext(), R.anim.alpha_scale_animation);
myView.startAnimation(connectingAnimation);

And to stop it:

myView.clearAnimation();
connectingAnimation.cancel();
connectingAnimation.reset();

You can also use libraries like ProgressButtonView to have both user interaction and loading process supported in the same widget.

Hope that any of these solutions result useful to someone :)