Is there a way to apply a 'resize' animation as opposed to a scale animation in Android? When using the scale animation, the image or layout being resized is stretched out, this includes the border / stroke outline that is outlines the image. I have a box, with 2 lines around them, when the animation is applied the stroke appears to grow, this is likely due to the fact that the 'scale' animation is actually scaling the borders/strokes in addition to the drawable. Is there any way to have the box grow, without having the stroke/border/outline appear to grow as well? i.e. i just want to resize, but not necessarily 'rescale' the drawable. note, my drawable is defined in xml...