Android animation does not repeat

Question

I\'m trying to make simple animation that would repeat several times (or infinitely).
It seems that android:repeatCount does not work!
Here is my anim

Answer 1

you can try this code. In your code just add,

firstAnimation.setRepeatCount(5);

This will repeat the animation for a definite time

firstAnimation.setRepeatCount(Animation.INFINITE);
firstAnimation.setRepeatMode(Animation.INFINITE);

This will repeat the animation indefinitely.

Answer 2

I solved this problem using thread.

Button btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonpush);
    final TextView textview = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.hello);
    btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            textview.setText("...................");
            final Animation animationtest = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(MainActivity.this, android.R.anim.slide_in_left);
            animationtest.setDuration(1000);

            final Handler handler = new Handler();
            Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
                public void run() {
                    handler.postDelayed(this, 1500);
                    textview.startAnimation(animationtest);
                }
            };
            handler.postDelayed(runnable, 500); // start
            handler.removeCallbacks(runnable); //STOP Timer

        }
    });

Answer 3

To get a repeating animation I utilized the animation listener, and called the animation again when it ended. This does a camera reticule focusing like animation with brackets.

Here is the animation layout xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<scale
    android:fromXScale="1.0"
    android:toXScale=".7"
    android:fromYScale="1.0"
    android:pivotX="50%"
    android:pivotY="50%"
    android:toYScale=".7"
    android:duration="1000"/>
<scale 
    android:duration="1000"
    android:fromXScale=".7"
    android:toXScale="1.0"
    android:fromYScale=".7"
    android:pivotX="50%"
    android:pivotY="50%"
    android:toYScale="1.0"
    android:startOffset="1000"/>

</set>

Here is the java code

 public void startAnimation() {

            View brackets = findViewById(R.id.brackets);
            brackets.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

            Animation anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(BuzzFinderActivity.this, R.anim.crosshair_focusing);
            anim.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {

                @Override
                public void onAnimationEnd(Animation arg0) {
                    Animation anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(BuzzFinderActivity.this, R.anim.crosshair_focusing);
                    anim.setAnimationListener(this);
                    brackets.startAnimation(anim);

                }

                @Override
                public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation arg0) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                }

                @Override
                public void onAnimationStart(Animation arg0) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                }

            });


            brackets.startAnimation(anim);
}

Answer 4

None of the above solutions worked in my case. The solution by Danuofr did work for animation set but when I was doing unit testing, my tests used to get stuck in this infinite loop. Finally, specific to my case, I needed to repeat this animation specific number of times. So, I manually added copies of my animation in anim_rot.xml in a cascaded manner adding the offset value. I know it's bad and won't work for many but it was the only workaround for my case.

anim_rot.xml

<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <rotate
        android:duration="2000"
        android:fromDegrees="20"
        android:pivotX="29%"
        android:pivotY="50%"
        android:toDegrees="-20" />
    <rotate
        android:duration="2000"
        android:fromDegrees="-20"
        android:pivotX="29%"
        android:pivotY="53%"
        android:startOffset="2000"
        android:toDegrees="20" />
    <rotate
        android:startOffset="4000"
        android:duration="2000"
        android:fromDegrees="20"
        android:pivotX="29%"
        android:pivotY="56%"
        android:toDegrees="-20" />
    <rotate
        android:duration="2000"
        android:fromDegrees="-20"
        android:pivotX="29%"
        android:pivotY="59%"
        android:startOffset="6000"
        android:toDegrees="20" />
    <rotate
        android:startOffset="8000"
        android:duration="2000"
        android:fromDegrees="20"
        android:pivotX="29%"
        android:pivotY="62%"
        android:toDegrees="-20" />
    <rotate
        android:duration="2000"
        android:fromDegrees="-20"
        android:pivotX="29%"
        android:pivotY="65%"
        android:startOffset="10000"
        android:toDegrees="20" />
</set>

I did this to repeat the animation 3 times. You can add more copies to repeat it specific times by adding offset values.

Answer 5

I was also facing the same problem.. i included android:repeatCount="infinite" in XMl file..now its working fine...

  <translate 
           android:fromXDelta="0"
           android:toXDelta="80"
           android:duration="1000"
           android:repeatCount="infinite"   
           android:repeatMode="reverse" 
           android:pivotX="50%"
           android:pivotY="50%"                             
           android:fillAfter="true"/>

Answer 6

With android sdk version 4.0.3:

In the given animation elements:

android:repeatCount="-1"

makes it an infinite animation.