Android: Expand/collapse animation

Question

Let\'s say I have a vertical linearLayout with :

[v1]
[v2]

By default v1 has visibily = GONE. I would like to show v1 with an expand animat

Answer 1

I adapted the currently accepted answer by Tom Esterez, which worked but had a choppy and not very smooth animation. My solution basically replaces the Animation with a ValueAnimator, which can be fitted with an Interpolator of your choice to achieve various effects such as overshoot, bounce, accelerate, etc.

This solution works great with views that have a dynamic height (i.e. using WRAP_CONTENT), as it first measures the actual required height and then animates to that height.

public static void expand(final View v) {
    v.measure(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
    final int targetHeight = v.getMeasuredHeight();

    // Older versions of android (pre API 21) cancel animations for views with a height of 0.
    v.getLayoutParams().height = 1;
    v.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

    ValueAnimator va = ValueAnimator.ofInt(1, targetHeight);
    va.addUpdateListener(new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() {
        public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) {
            v.getLayoutParams().height = (Integer) animation.getAnimatedValue();
            v.requestLayout();
        }
    });
    va.addListener(new Animator.AnimatorListener() {
        @Override
        public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) {
            v.getLayoutParams().height = ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
        }

        @Override public void onAnimationStart(Animator animation) {}
        @Override public void onAnimationCancel(Animator animation) {}
        @Override public void onAnimationRepeat(Animator animation) {}
    });
    va.setDuration(300);
    va.setInterpolator(new OvershootInterpolator());
    va.start();
}

public static void collapse(final View v) {
    final int initialHeight = v.getMeasuredHeight();

    ValueAnimator va = ValueAnimator.ofInt(initialHeight, 0);
    va.addUpdateListener(new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() {
        public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) {
            v.getLayoutParams().height = (Integer) animation.getAnimatedValue();
            v.requestLayout();
        }
    });
    va.addListener(new Animator.AnimatorListener() {
        @Override
        public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) {
            v.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }

        @Override public void onAnimationStart(Animator animation) {}
        @Override public void onAnimationCancel(Animator animation) {}
        @Override public void onAnimationRepeat(Animator animation) {}
    });
    va.setDuration(300);
    va.setInterpolator(new DecelerateInterpolator());
    va.start();
}

You then simply call expand( myView ); or collapse( myView );.