How to animate a View's translation

Question

At the first click of a button, I want to slide a View along the x-axis (by 200 pixels to the right let\'s say). And on the second press of the button, I want t

Answer 1

Try looking into ObjectAnimator and its super class Value Animator

you can do something like this ObjectAnimator anim = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(this, "translationX", 0,200); and then anim.start();

Use a boolean value and toggle it with 200,0 in the object animator to slide back

PS: you can use setDuration method to set how long the animation should take to complete

Edit :

Try looking at the support library which provides backward compatibility.

Edit

As @AdilHussain pointed out there is a library called nineoldandroids which can be used for the same purpose on older androids.