How to add fading TextView animation in Android

Last Updated : 23 Feb, 2021

TextView is the basic building block of user interface components. It is used to set the text and display it to the user. It is a very basic component and used a lot.

A Fading TextView is a TextView that changes its content automatically every few seconds. If we want to design a beautiful interface than we can use Fading TextView.

Approach:

Add this to your root build.gradle file (not your module build.gradle file):
allprojects {

    repositories {

           jcenter()

    }

}
Add the support Library in your module’s build.gradle file and add dependency in the dependencies section.
dependencies {

implementation 'com.tomer:fadingtextview:2.5'

}

Now add the following code in the activity_main.xml file.

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout 
  
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity"> 
  
    <com.tomer.fadingtextview.FadingTextView
        android:id="@+id/fadingTextView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="22sp"
        android:textColor="#2AC308"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        app:timeout="500"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" /> 
  
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout> 

Now add the following code in the MainActivity.java file.

MainActivity.java

package org.geeksforgeeks.gfgFadingTextView; 
  
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity; 
import android.os.Bundle; 
import com.tomer.fadingtextview.FadingTextView; 
  
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { 
  
    FadingTextView fadingTextView; 
    String[] text 
        = { "GeeksForGeeks", "A", 
            "Computer", "Science", "Portal", 
            "For", "Geeks" }; 
  
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
    { 
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); 
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); 
  
        fadingTextView 
            = findViewById(R.id.fadingTextView); 
        fadingTextView.setTexts(text); 
    } 
} 