How can I animate a view in Android and have it stay in the new position/size?

Question

I currently have a view in my Android app and the view is playing a frame animation. I want to animate the view to increase its size to 150%. When I apply a scale animation to it, and the scale animation is completed, I want the view to stay at that new size for the rest of the activities life cycle. Unfortunately right now when the scale up animation is complete, the view snaps back to the original size. How can I get it to keep the new animated tranformation?

I'm using myView.startAnimation(AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(mContext,R.anim.scaleUp150));

Thanks!

Answer 1

EDIT: previous answer incorrect.

For things to work as expected after the animation, at least according to this thread, you will have to write an onAnimationEnd handler, and in there, manually adjust the "real" (pre-transformation) bounds of your view to match the end result of the scale animation.

Answer 2

Actually, as the animation you are using seems to be one embedded in the Android framework, I'm not sure you can change anything in it.
However, you can create you own animation by following the example in the documentation. And you will have to put android:fillAfter="true" if you want the scaling to be kept after the end of the animation.

Answer 3

fillAfter=true fillEnabled=true