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

Making use of Kotlin Extension Functions this is tested and shortest answer

Just call animateVisibility(expand/collapse) on any View.

fun View.animateVisibility(setVisible: Boolean) {
    if (setVisible) expand(this) else collapse(this)
}

private fun expand(view: View) {
    view.measure(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
    val initialHeight = 0
    val targetHeight = view.measuredHeight

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

    animateView(view, initialHeight, targetHeight)
}

private fun collapse(view: View) {
    val initialHeight = view.measuredHeight
    val targetHeight = 0

    animateView(view, initialHeight, targetHeight)
}

private fun animateView(v: View, initialHeight: Int, targetHeight: Int) {
    val valueAnimator = ValueAnimator.ofInt(initialHeight, targetHeight)
    valueAnimator.addUpdateListener { animation ->
        v.layoutParams.height = animation.animatedValue as Int
        v.requestLayout()
    }
    valueAnimator.addListener(object : Animator.AnimatorListener {
        override fun onAnimationEnd(animation: Animator) {
            v.layoutParams.height = targetHeight
        }

        override fun onAnimationStart(animation: Animator) {}
        override fun onAnimationCancel(animation: Animator) {}
        override fun onAnimationRepeat(animation: Animator) {}
    })
    valueAnimator.duration = 300
    valueAnimator.interpolator = DecelerateInterpolator()
    valueAnimator.start()
}

Answer 2

Ok, I just found a VERY ugly solution :

public static Animation expand(final View v, Runnable onEnd) {
    try {
        Method m = v.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("onMeasure", int.class, int.class);
        m.setAccessible(true);
        m.invoke(
            v,
            MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED),
            MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(((View)v.getParent()).getMeasuredHeight(), MeasureSpec.AT_MOST)
        );
    } catch (Exception e){
        Log.e("test", "", e);
    }
    final int initialHeight = v.getMeasuredHeight();
    Log.d("test", "initialHeight="+initialHeight);

    v.getLayoutParams().height = 0;
    v.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    Animation a = new Animation()
    {
        @Override
        protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
            final int newHeight = (int)(initialHeight * interpolatedTime);
            v.getLayoutParams().height = newHeight;
            v.requestLayout();
        }

        @Override
        public boolean willChangeBounds() {
            return true;
        }
    };
    a.setDuration(5000);
    v.startAnimation(a);
    return a;
}

Feel free to propose a better solution !

Answer 3

Adding to Tom Esterez's excellent answer and Erik B's excellent update to it, I thought I'd post my own take, compacting the expand and contract methods into one. This way, you could for example have an action like this...

button.setOnClickListener(v -> expandCollapse(view));

... which calls the method below and letting it figure out what to do after each onClick()...

public static void expandCollapse(View view) {

    boolean expand = view.getVisibility() == View.GONE;
    Interpolator easeInOutQuart = PathInterpolatorCompat.create(0.77f, 0f, 0.175f, 1f);

    view.measure(
        View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(((View) view.getParent()).getWidth(), View.MeasureSpec.EXACTLY),
        View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED)
    );

    int height = view.getMeasuredHeight();
    int duration = (int) (height/view.getContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density);

    Animation animation = new Animation() {
        @Override protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
            if (expand) {
                view.getLayoutParams().height = 1;
                view.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                if (interpolatedTime == 1) {
                    view.getLayoutParams().height = ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
                } else {
                    view.getLayoutParams().height = (int) (height * interpolatedTime);
                }
                view.requestLayout();
            } else {
                if (interpolatedTime == 1) {
                    view.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                } else {
                    view.getLayoutParams().height = height - (int) (height * interpolatedTime);
                    view.requestLayout();
                }
            }
        }
        @Override public boolean willChangeBounds() {
            return true;
        }
    };

    animation.setInterpolator(easeInOutQuart);
    animation.setDuration(duration);
    view.startAnimation(animation);

}

Answer 4

public static void slide(View v, int speed, int pos) {
    v.animate().setDuration(speed);
    v.animate().translationY(pos);
    v.animate().start();
}

// slide down
slide(yourView, 250, yourViewHeight);
// slide up
slide(yourView, 250, 0);

Answer 5

Based on solutions by @Tom Esterez and @Seth Nelson (top 2) I simlified them. As well as original solutions it doesn't depend on Developer options (animation settings).

private void resizeWithAnimation(final View view, int duration, final int targetHeight) {
    final int initialHeight = view.getMeasuredHeight();
    final int distance = targetHeight - initialHeight;

    view.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

    Animation a = new Animation() {
        @Override
        protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
            if (interpolatedTime == 1 && targetHeight == 0) {
                view.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }
            view.getLayoutParams().height = (int) (initialHeight + distance * interpolatedTime);
            view.requestLayout();
        }

        @Override
        public boolean willChangeBounds() {
            return true;
        }
    };

    a.setDuration(duration);
    view.startAnimation(a);
}

Answer 6

Use ValueAnimator:

ValueAnimator expandAnimation = ValueAnimator.ofInt(mainView.getHeight(), 400);
expandAnimation.addUpdateListener(new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() {
    @Override
    public void onAnimationUpdate(final ValueAnimator animation) {
        int height = (Integer) animation.getAnimatedValue();
        RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = (LayoutParams) mainView.getLayoutParams();
        lp.height = height;
    }
});


expandAnimation.setDuration(500);
expandAnimation.start();