How to create the delay of 1 sec before set the alpha of View?

Question

In My Application i am going to set the alpha after one animation. As like:

hideMenu = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation( getApplication(), R.anim.menu_layout_hide);
 menuLayout.startAnimation(hideMenu);
 menuLayout.setVisibility(View.GONE);

But i want to set the delay of 1 Sec before the Alpha set th the View. as Because of that i am not able to see the Animation of that layout. So How it is possibe ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In your animation xml file you can use android:startOffset attribute:

android:startOffset int. The amount of milliseconds the animation delays after start() is called.

Answer 2

Can't you use the

android:startOffset int. The amount of milliseconds the animation delays after start() is called.

in your animation xml?

See the animation resource documentation.

Answer 3

Suppose you are using the view .animate() method, you can set the start offset:

view.animate().x(100)
              .setDuration(5000)
              .setStartDelay(1000);

Answer 4

In your case you can simply do like this

hideMenu = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation( getApplication(), R.anim.menu_layout_hide);

hideMenu.setStartOffset(1000);

 menuLayout.startAnimation(hideMenu);
 menuLayout.setVisibility(View.GONE);

In this case you can control dynamically value of the start time from the activity

Answer 5

Handler is a good technique to achieve this.

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable()
{
   @Override
   public void run()
   {
     view.startAnimation(animation);
   }
}, 1000);