Animate newly added items in ListView

Question

How can I animate newly added items in ListView?

I have a adapter and when I add new items in my list I say adapter.notifyDataSetChan

Answer 1

Adding this kind of animations is harder than I first thought of. There are two ways depending of the kind of animation you are trying to achieve.

• Using LayoutAnimationController. There is an example in the API demos.

• Animating each View:

This is quite a hack but the only way I found to add an animation to ListView's children is the following:

You can try notifying the adapter the id of the item you are willing to delete and call adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();. This will generate calls to the adapter's getView() method. Inside it you can do something like:

if ( item.getId() == itemToRemove ) {
 //apply the animation
}

After the animation finished you can recall adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() to put everything in place.