android - Single Animation - Multiple Views

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

You can use the ObjectAnimator for animating the multiple view as follows:

ArrayList<ObjectAnimator> arrayListObjectAnimators = new ArrayList<ObjectAnimator>(); //ArrayList of ObjectAnimators

ObjectAnimator animY = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(view, "y", 100f);
arrayListObjectAnimators.add(animY);

ObjectAnimator animX = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(view, "x", 0f);
arrayListObjectAnimators.add(animX);
...
ObjectAnimator[] objectAnimators = arrayListObjectAnimators.toArray(new ObjectAnimator[arrayListObjectAnimators.size()]);
AnimatorSet animSetXY = new AnimatorSet();
animSetXY.playTogether(objectAnimators);
animSetXY.setDuration(1000);//1sec
animSetXY.start();