Question

I have an Android application with some ImageButtons, just like icons.

I would like to know how I could implement a function to “shake” icons after user long-presses them. Like iPhone icons on edit mode, you know?

After editing, icons stop shaking.

Is it possible to do that in Android?

Answer 1

use this to start the shaking animation on your icons upon the long press event of your button

public void onClick(View v) {
    Animation shake = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.shake);
    findViewById(R.id.pw).startAnimation(shake);
}

This snippet is taking from the android API Demo here http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/view/Animation1.html