Animate visibility modes, GONE and VISIBLE

Question

So im trying to animate when i set the visibility of a linearlayout with other widgets, from GONE to VISIBLE and the opposite.Im using togglebuttons to show and hide. Here\'s an

Answer 1

Like tomash said before: There's no easy way.

You might want to take a look at my answer here.
It explains how to realize a sliding (dimension changing) view.
In this case it was a left and right view: Left expanding, right disappearing.
It's might not do exactly what you need but with inventive spirit you can make it work ;)

Answer 2

This is a quite old question, still comments show, that still people have problems, so here is my solution with following additional features:

• adjust the animation (speed, type, ...)
• does not need to extend any class
• in my case, animateLayoutChanges has problems in the new CoordinatorLayout

Function - Example (I have this function in an utility class)

public static void animateViewVisibility(final View view, final int visibility)
{
    // cancel runnning animations and remove and listeners
    view.animate().cancel();
    view.animate().setListener(null);

    // animate making view visible
    if (visibility == View.VISIBLE)
    {
        view.animate().alpha(1f).start();
        view.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }
    // animate making view hidden (HIDDEN or INVISIBLE)
    else
    {
        view.animate().setListener(new AnimatorListenerAdapter()
        {
            @Override
            public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation)
            {
                view.setVisibility(visibility);
            }
        }).alpha(0f).start();
    }
}

Adjust animation

After calling view.animate() you can adjust the animation to whatever you want (set duration, set interpolator and more...). You may as well hide a view by scaling it instead of adjusting it's alpha value, just replace the alpha(...) with scaleX(...) or scaleY(...) in the utility method if you want that