Alternative to setAlpha in api level 8

Question

I am working on an app, which can run on Froyo as well as JellyBean. I have a class that extends PageTransformer as below:

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Answer 1

In case anyone is cough lazy and wants the ZoomOutPageTransformer compatible back to API 8. Uses nineoldandroids and the ViewHelper class.

package com.weddingwire.vendorsearch.Animation;

import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.view.View;

import com.nineoldandroids.view.ViewHelper;

public class ZoomOutPageTransformer implements ViewPager.PageTransformer {
    private static float MIN_SCALE = 0.85f;
    private static float MIN_ALPHA = 0.5f;

    public void transformPage(View view, float position) {
        int pageWidth = view.getWidth();
        int pageHeight = view.getHeight();

        if (position < -1) { // [-Infinity,-1)
            // This page is way off-screen to the left.
            ViewHelper.setAlpha(view, 0);

        } else if (position <= 1) { // [-1,1]
            // Modify the default slide transition to shrink the page as well
            float scaleFactor = Math.max(MIN_SCALE, 1 - Math.abs(position));
            float vertMargin = pageHeight * (1 - scaleFactor) / 2;
            float horzMargin = pageWidth * (1 - scaleFactor) / 2;
            if (position < 0) {
                ViewHelper.setTranslationX(view, (horzMargin - vertMargin / 2));
            } else {
                ViewHelper.setTranslationX(view, -horzMargin + vertMargin / 2);
            }

            // Scale the page down (between MIN_SCALE and 1)
            ViewHelper.setScaleX(view, scaleFactor);
            ViewHelper.setScaleY(view, scaleFactor);

            // Fade the page relative to its size.
            ViewHelper.setAlpha(view, MIN_ALPHA +
                    (scaleFactor - MIN_SCALE) /
                            (1 - MIN_SCALE) * (1 - MIN_ALPHA));

        } else { // (1,+Infinity]
            // This page is way off-screen to the right.
            ViewHelper.setAlpha(view, 0);
        }
    }
}