Android: show/hide a view using an animation

Question

I\'ve been looking through many google results / questions on here to determine how to show/hide a view via a vertical animation, but I can\'t seem to find one that\'s exactly r

Answer 1

ViewAnimator:

In XML:

Functions:

public void show(int viewId) {
    ViewAnimator animator = (ViewAnimator) findView(animatorId);
    View view = findViewById(viewId);

    if (animator.getDisplayedChild() != animator.indexOfChild(view)) {
        animator.setDisplayedChild(animator.indexOfChild(view));
     }
 }


 private void showAuthenticationConnectionFailureMessage() {
    show(R.id.text_message_authentication_connection);
}