I am not sure if this question has been asked here or not. I look for a way to simulate the slide action in listview of Android. Similar to that of Samsung Galaxy/Nexus contact
Here's a nice post that may help you. Implementation may be a bit tricky, but that's a nice method of solving your problem IMHO. Hope this helps.
Check out SwipeActionAdapter
It's an awesome library that allows Swipe in both directions with an underlying Layout or Color, and performs a desired action when the swipe/slide gesture is done. You can configure it to reveal/change the layout.
Check out SwipeMenuListView
In a sense, it is more like the Swipe-able TableViews in iOS.
This is how I realize this action. We have a ListView lvSimple and we add onTouchListener to our lvSimple. This is my working code.
float historicX = Float.NaN, historicY = Float.NaN;
static final int DELTA = 50;
enum Direction {LEFT, RIGHT;}
...
ListView lvSimple = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.linLayout);
...
lvSimple.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
switch (event.getAction())
{
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
historicX = event.getX();
historicY = event.getY();
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
if (event.getX() - historicX < -DELTA)
{
FunctionDeleteRowWhenSlidingLeft();
return true;
}
else if (event.getX() - historicX > DELTA)
{
FunctionDeleteRowWhenSlidingRight();
return true;
} break;
default: return false;
}
return false;
}
});
where function FunctionDeleteRowWhenSlidingLeft() is calling when when we sliding to the left, FunctionDeleteRowWhenSlidingRight - to the right respectively. In this function you need paste code for animation.
this link is very clear and useful

IOS 7 Swipe Gesture in Android listview. This repo provides listview swipe gesture pattern like IOS7 mailbox. messages to your Application.