Android grow LinearLayout using animation

Question

I am trying to use animation to make a layout appear on screen. The idea is that layout will start with height of 0 and grow to 100%.

I have real troubles with this and

Answer 1

The easiest way for Android 3.0 and above is to set this property for the view you want to add childs:

android:animateLayoutChanges="true"

You can also create your own animations:

If you want to supply custom layout animations, create a LayoutTransition object and supply it to the layout with the setLayoutTransition() method.

For more info see: http://developer.android.com/training/animation/layout.html#activity