Android animation does not repeat

Question

I\'m trying to make simple animation that would repeat several times (or infinitely).
It seems that android:repeatCount does not work!
Here is my anim

Answer 1

i got this to go ...i was trying to get a view to rotate in a circle continuously .

previous i was using rotation.setRepeatMode(-1) but that didn't work. switched to setrepeatcount and it works. This is on jelly bean 4.2.2

 ObjectAnimator rotation = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(myview,
                          "rotation", 360).setDuration(2000);
                rotation.setRepeatMode(-1);
          rotation.setRepeatCount(Animation.INFINITE); 
 rotation.start();

Answer 2

Add the following class to your project:

import android.view.View;
import android.view.animation.Animation;

public class AnimationRepeater implements Animation.AnimationListener
{
    private View view;
    private Animation animation;
    private int count;

    public AnimationRepeater(View view, Animation animation)
    {
        this.view = view;
        this.animation = animation;
        this.count = -1;
    }

    public AnimationRepeater(View view, Animation animation, int count)
    {
        this.view = view;
        this.animation = animation;
        this.count = count;
    }

    public void start()
    {
        this.view.startAnimation(this.animation);
        this.animation.setAnimationListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) { }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation)
    {
        if (this.count == -1)
            this.view.startAnimation(animation);
        else
        {
            if (count - 1 >= 0)
            {
                this.animation.start();
                count --;
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) { }
}

For infinite loop of your view, do the following:

Animation a = AnimationUtils(Context, R.anim.animation);
new AnimationRepeater(View, a).start();

If you want to repeat the animation for N-times only, do the following:

Animation a = AnimationUtils(Context, R.anim.animation);
new AnimationRepeater(View, a, int N).start();

N stands for number of repetitions.

Answer 3

you have to add just one line in your xml code that i suggested below .

<scale
    android:duration="500"
    android:fromXScale="1.0"
    android:fromYScale="1.0"
    android:toXScale="1.2"
    android:toYScale="1.2"
    android:pivotX="50%"
    android:pivotY="50%"
    android:repeatCount="infinite" // just add this one line 
    android:fillAfter="false"
    />
</set>

Answer 4

One need to listen for completion of first animation then re-start the animation in onStopAnimation call back, give a try to this link

Answer 5

i just came across this issue while working on a backwards compatible app. so frustrating! i ended up coding a nice workaround class that can be called from onCreate and will kickoff any animation resource into an indefinite loop.

the class, AnimationLooper, is available here: https://gist.github.com/2018678