Some Different Approaches to Animation in Android

The following list shows some different approaches to make animations in android. Please click each item to find the discussion about it with complete examples.

• ObjectAnimator
• Animation and Its Subclasses
• ViewPropertyAnimator
• ValueAnimator
• Physics-Based Animations: SpringAnimation and FlingAnimation
• Animation by Canvas

It is very important to note that three first approaches listed above are not recommended but still I try to describe them with some examples. So I deeply suggest ValueAnimator, Animation by Canvas and Physics-Based Animations as more proper approaches in making animations in android.
When we are interested to more complex animations, OpenGL may be suitable specially in the case of huge and continuously rendering animation, 3D animations or animations with complex transformations.