Android — How to change the height of a view using animation

So there have been times when I needed to hide a view or show a view based on some requirement. Recently, I had to change the height of a view based on some result from api. But it seemed like a bad user experience to just change the height. So I thought of adding animation to it.

So I created a simple util class to achieve this animation. We use ValueAnimator to change the height from one value to another.

How to use this?

Sample output you would get:

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