How to reset AnimationDrawable

Question

I have to animate a circular count down timer and I\'m doing it by animating the background of an ImageView using AnimationDrawable (each image has the according slice of th

Answer 1

I had the same problem where stopping the animation would stop on the current frame. I wanted it to behave like iOS, where stopping would go back to the first frame. This solution works for me:

((AnimationDrawable)(someButton.getBackground())).stop();
someButton.setBackgroundDrawable(null);
someButton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.animation);

This first stops it (probably not necessary). Then it kills the background animation. Finally, it recreates the background.