Android - animation in Image View

The goal was to create an animation effect of fading one image and then other appear. Below code and settings could do this.

ImageView view = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.slide_show_image_view);

    if (view != null) {

        Animation animation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getApplicationContext(), R.anim.fade);

        view.startAnimation(animation);

        imgView.setImageBitmap(bitmapCache);

    }

This required the anim file like this below 

  

    "1.0" encoding="utf-8"?

    "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:interpolator="@android:anim/accelerate_interpolator"

    

   

android:fromAlpha="0"

android:toAlpha="1"

android:duration="2000"

   

    

   

android:startOffset="8000"

android:fromAlpha="1"

android:toAlpha="0"

android:duration="2000"

   

    

    

It is important to keep the animation durations right so that it gives good efect. 

references:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/android/android_animations.htm