Text Animation from left to right like shine in Android

Question

I don\'t know what type of animation it called, but I want to implement it as shown below. I saw that animation in iOS.

Answer 1

Got solution by using Spannable

Following is Thread class which continuously run with interval of 100 ms.

class MyThread extends Thread {
    //used for stopping thread
    boolean flag; 

    //init flag to true so that method run continuously
    public MyThread() {
        flag = true;
    }

    //set flag false, if want to stop this thread
    public void setFlag(boolean flag) {
        this.flag = flag;
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        super.run();
        while (flag) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(intervalMiliSeconds);
                runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {

                        Spannable spn = new SpannableString(txtView
                                .getText().toString());
                        spn.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.WHITE),
                                startPosition, endPosition,
                                Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                        txtView.setText(spn);

                        startPosition++;
                        endPosition++;
                        endPosition %= (lengthOfString + charGaps);
                        startPosition %= lengthOfString;

                        if (startPosition == 0) {
                            endPosition = charGaps;
                            startPosition = 0;
                        }

                        if (endPosition > lengthOfString) {
                            endPosition = lengthOfString;
                        }

                        Log.d("Home", "Start : " + startPosition + " End : " + endPosition);

                    }
                });
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
}

To use above code, use following implementation.

TextView txtView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtView);

int charGaps = 3;

int startPosition = 0;
int endPosition = charGaps;

int lengthOfString = txtView.getText().length();

MyThread thread = new MyThread();

thread.start();

Output

Still better answers will be more appreciated.. :)