Question

can you give me a hint how to animate letters in the text string? For example, for a string “Hello World”, scale H first from 0 to size, then e, then l etc? like a bouncing text effect if you know what I mean.

And I would the first letter in a string to be in a different color.

I do know how to animate the entire view or draw text on canvas, but that way animate the entire text string not the letters.

Answer 1

found an easy way by using two TextView controls. First is set to the first latter of a word by mytext.substring(0,1) and second one to mytext.substring(1).

when do startAnimation for both or you can have one animation for the first view and another one for the second one.

on layout file, i put them next to each other on RelativeLayout:

<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/MainLayout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtCaption"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="80dp"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:text="est"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtCaptionFirstLetter"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="70dp"
        android:textColor="#00FF00"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:text="T" 
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/txtImageCaption" 
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/txtImageCaption"
        />
</RelativeLayout>