Getting started with animations on Android

Want to get started with animations on Android? It turns out, things are surprisingly easy.


There are two ways to create animations:

1. Using OpenGL --- See documentation here
2. Using built-in View animations --- More here and here.

I explored the later. Basically the code boils down to the following:

1- Create an animation template. For example the following can be used to rotate an imageview back and forth:

2- You can then apply the animation to the view using the following code:
I created the following app to demonstrate various animations on arbitrary images:

Read the README.md for more details.

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