In Android, how do I smoothly fade the background from one color to another? (How to use threads)

Question

I\'ve been playing with Android programming on and off for a couple of weeks, and I\'m trying to get something to work that seems simple, but I think I am missing something.

Answer 1

Better answer to this question would be to use ObjectAnimator

ObjectAnimator colorFade = ObjectAnimator.ofObject(view, "backgroundColor" /*view attribute name*/, new ArgbEvaluator(), mContext.getResources().getColor(R.color.colorMenuOverlay) /*from color*/, Color.WHITE /*to color*/);
                colorFade.setDuration(3500);
                colorFade.setStartDelay(200);
                colorFade.start();