The problem:
(1) add a touch listener to rows in a listview so that on swipe.
(2) swipe animation plays
(3) rows get deleted in the backend, and
Chet Haase (Google Engineer) put together a really good DevBytes on this topic I'd suggest watching/taking ideas from his source. If you use NineOldAndroids, I think this'll be backwards compatible to GB.
Check it out here:
http://graphics-geek.blogspot.com/2013/06/devbytes-animating-listview-deletion.html