Android: Animating changes to GridView content

Question

I have a GridView of layouts which can be dynamically added or removed to the grid.

In iOS, the native behavior for GridView items is for the other items in the grid to

Answer 1

Chet Haase came out with a nice video on how to handle ListView animations properly. The basic concept can be applied to GridViews. You can find the video here.

If you're developing for API 1.0+, you won't be able to use the referenced animation features that the video mentions (such as ViewPropertyAnimator) unless you use NineOldAndroids.