Question

Is there any way to animate multiple views at the same time?

What I want to do is translate animations:

I have 5 TextViews and 4 coloured strips (plain RelativeLayouts with a background). At the start of the animations, the stips are stacked with the TextViews in a horizontal row. At the end I want all the TextViews stacked between the strips:

This is a very simple drawing, but it demonstrates what I want to do. Is there any way of doing this with animations, or do I have to use canvas animations.

Answer 1

Create your animation objects, then use startAnimation collectively on all views at the same time. So it would be something like this:

TranslateAnimation anim1;
TranslateAnimation anim2;
TranslateAnimation anim3;

// Setup the animation objects

public void startAnimations()
{
   //... collect view objects
   view1.startAnimation(anim1);
   view2.startAnimation(anim2);
   view3.startAnimation(anim3);
}

Just note that the more animations you have going on at once, the slower it’s going to be.