TextView animation - fade in, wait, fade out

Question

I am making a picture gallery app. I current have a imageview with a text view at the bottom. Currently it is just semitransparent. I want to make it fade in, wait 3 second,

Answer 1

That's the solution that I've used in my project for looping fade-in/fade-out animation on TextViews:

private void setUpFadeAnimation(final TextView textView) {
    // Start from 0.1f if you desire 90% fade animation
    final Animation fadeIn = new AlphaAnimation(0.0f, 1.0f);
    fadeIn.setDuration(1000);
    fadeIn.setStartOffset(3000);
    // End to 0.1f if you desire 90% fade animation
    final Animation fadeOut = new AlphaAnimation(1.0f, 0.0f);
    fadeOut.setDuration(1000);
    fadeOut.setStartOffset(3000);

    fadeIn.setAnimationListener(new Animation.AnimationListener(){
        @Override
        public void onAnimationEnd(Animation arg0) {
            // start fadeOut when fadeIn ends (continue)
            textView.startAnimation(fadeOut);
        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation arg0) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationStart(Animation arg0) {
        }
    });

    fadeOut.setAnimationListener(new Animation.AnimationListener(){
        @Override
        public void onAnimationEnd(Animation arg0) {
            // start fadeIn when fadeOut ends (repeat)
            textView.startAnimation(fadeIn);
        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation arg0) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationStart(Animation arg0) {
        }
    });

    textView.startAnimation(fadeOut);
}

Hope this could help!