Prevent RotateAnimation from resetting when cancelled

Question

I have a simple RotateAnimation to animate an ImageView indefinitely until I stop it. I have the animation set up as follows:

    Animation spin = new RotateAnimation(0.0f, 1800.0f, Animation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, 0.5f, Animation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, 0.5f);
    spin.setInterpolator(new LinearInterpolator());
    spin.setRepeatCount(Animation.INFINITE);
    spin.setDuration(5000);
    imageView.setAnimation(spin);

When I call imageView.cancelAnimation(), is it possible for me to "freeze" the animation right at whatever frame it ended on (or whatever angle it's at) instead of having it reset to the first frame?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 03 '13 at 21:25

I have an app that has to hold its rotation position after getting to its determined angle. I searched around for quite sometime and finally found that calling setFillAfter() method. This will stop the rotation from resetting.

    RotateAnimation rotate = new RotateAnimation(startingPoint, value, Animation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, 0.5f, Animation.RELATIVE_TO_SELF, 0.5f);
    image.setAnimation(rotate);

    rotate.setDuration(ROTATION_INTERVAL);
    rotate.setFillAfter(true);

devunwired · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-13T15:44:08.337

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You're probably better off wrapping your image contents in a RotateDrawable and setting it to the ImageView rather than using an animation. You can still animate the transition by using a simple Handler to repeatedly call setImageLevel() to adjust the rotation angle.

When the time comes to freeze the animation, just stop posting to the Handler and the image will remain at its last set level value. You can then restart if you like by resuming posts to the Handler.

Another option would be to create a custom ViewGroup and use getChildStaticTransformation() to apply a custom transform to a child ImageView. You would still be handling the animation steps manually, so you can start/stop at any point you like, but Transformation is what the animation system uses to animate views so you might get results closer to that effect.

HTH

edited Jan 13 '12 at 15:44

answered Jan 13 '12 at 05:13

devunwired

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I guess this works. Only problem is that `RotateDrawable`s aren't as smooth when I try to use them as indeterminate progress bars. Do you know how I can increase the frame rate or speed of an indeterminate progress bar? – Brian Jan 13 '12 at 06:03
Not publicly. `ProgressBar` uses an `AnimatedRotateDrawable`, which has these properties but is a hidden class. I have added another option for transforming the view. To get more smoothness you may need to manually call the methods on an Interpolator so you know how much to adjust the animation at each step. – devunwired Jan 13 '12 at 15:47
Is there any example of using RotateDrawable? I cannot find any in the android SDK. – IgorGanapolsky Sep 28 '15 at 20:30

Prevent RotateAnimation from resetting when cancelled

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