android - How do I animate View.setVisibility(GONE)

Question

I want to make an Animation for when a View gets it's visibility set to GONE. Instead of just dissapearing, the View should 'collapse'. I tried this with a ScaleAnimation but then the View is collapse, but the layout will only resize it's space after (or before) the Animation stops (or starts).

How can I make the Animation so that, while animating, the lower Views will stay directly below the content, instead of having a blank space?

Answer 1

Put the view in a layout if it's not and set android:animateLayoutChanges="true" for that layout.