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Android Animations and Transitions Animations Basics Property Animation

Posted by Phillip Cherry jr
Phillip Cherry jr
17,025 Points

I need help with this for some reason it is not working but I have tried everything! PLEASE HELP!!

private void animate() { imageView.setScaleX(1); imageView.setScaleY(1); imageView.animate().scaleX(2).scaleY(2).start(); } @OnClick(R.id.image_view) public void onImageViewClick(View view) { animate(); }

CodeChallenge.java 
// Use the variable named 'imageView'

private void animate() {
    imageView.setScaleX(1);
    imageView.setScaleY(1);
    imageView.animate().scaleX(2).scaleY(2).start();
}
@OnClick(R.id.image_view)
public void onImageViewClick(View view) {
 animate();
}

2 Answers

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Hi Phillip - You need to call the animate method on imageView, so the first task's code will look like this:

imageView.animate();

Then for the other tasks you can start chaining the methods.

Phillip Cherry jr
Phillip Cherry jr
17,025 Points
Phillip Cherry jr
Phillip Cherry jr
17,025 Points

Thank you Kourosh sir! I was making it way to complicated!! :)