How to reset AnimationDrawable

Question

I have to animate a circular count down timer and I\'m doing it by animating the background of an ImageView using AnimationDrawable (each image has the according slice of th

Answer 1

android.view.animation.Animation.reset() doesnt work?

Answer 2

I had the same problem where stopping the animation would stop on the current frame. I wanted it to behave like iOS, where stopping would go back to the first frame. This solution works for me:

((AnimationDrawable)(someButton.getBackground())).stop();
someButton.setBackgroundDrawable(null);
someButton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.animation);

This first stops it (probably not necessary). Then it kills the background animation. Finally, it recreates the background.

Answer 3

Another possible solution would be to have the same image for the first frame and last frame and do the following instead of calling the stop() method.

((AnimationDrawable)(someButton.getBackground())).setOneShot(true);

if anyone does look into this any further. There is also a method called setVisible(boolean visible, boolean restart). However, that did not work for myself.

Answer 4

You can try public boolean setVisible (boolean visible, boolean restart) and it will play the animation once. For example:

animationDrawable.setVisible(false, true);

Answer 5

This will send the (AnimationDrawable) timerAnimation to the first frame as soon as stop() has been called:

timerAnimation.stop();
timerAnimation.selectDrawable(0);