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I have an ImageView on which I have applied a rotate animation. Since I want the rotation to go on continuously, I gave the repeatCount as infinite in my rotate.xml:

android:repeatCount="infinite"

In onCreate(), I load the animation and start it.

Animation myAnim    = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.rotate);
objectImg.startAnimation(myAnim);

When a button is pressed, the rotation must stop. Hence in my onClick(), I called clearAnimation().

objectImg.startAnimation(myAnim);

My simple question is whether stopping the animation is the right thing to do. I assume clearAnimation() corresponds to loadAnimation(), but there is no stopAnimation() that corresponds to startAnimation().

Jason Plank
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Use clearAnimation() to stop an animation. There is no loadAnimation() on View.

CommonsWare
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  • Ok, thanks. So only startAnimation() and clearAnimation() are pplicable to views. – kiki Oct 12 '10 at 11:53
  • clearAnimation() didn't work for me, setAnimation(null) did – Leon Nov 09 '15 at 13:57
  • Hi @CommonsWare can u tell me how stop animation onClick of the view itself which is animating but not as a separate button? – Raghavendra Dec 15 '15 at 04:55
  • `img.clearAnimation()` is the best solution - `img.setAnimation(null)` also works, but it's less elegant - `img.startAnimation(null)` causes crash – voghDev Oct 27 '16 at 08:37
  • I had an infinite animation on an imageView of zoom in/zoom out. When I was trying to stop animation after clicking on view, neither anim.cancel() nor img.clearAnimation() works for me. Finally img.setAnimation(null) worked for me. – shaby Jan 13 '17 at 11:51
  • Working perfect – Daxesh V Feb 01 '20 at 11:21
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You can also call anim.cancel(); but you should also call anim.reset(); immediately after it. Then when you want to start it again, just call startAnimation on the view.

duggu
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John J Smith
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    animation.cancel(); requires API level 8, for stop the animation in API 7 and above the only option is view.clearAnimation(); – Toni Alvarez Dec 15 '12 at 02:12
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    `cancel()` would just reset the whole animation to initial state. But how to keep the last stopped state? – IgorGanapolsky Sep 28 '15 at 20:19
  • Proof of necessity to call anim.cancel() and anim.reset() together. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/animation/Animation.html#cancel() – VKostenc Mar 18 '19 at 12:55
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Simply add below two lines.

anim?.cancelAnimation()

anim?.progress = 0f
cigien
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You can do it simply by removing this line : android:repeatCount="infinite" from your rotate.xml file

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