TextView animation - fade in, wait, fade out

Question

I am making a picture gallery app. I current have a imageview with a text view at the bottom. Currently it is just semitransparent. I want to make it fade in, wait 3 second, then fade out 90%. Bringing focus to it or loading a new pic will make it repeat the cycle. I have read thru a dozen pages and have tried a few things, no success. All I get is a fade in and instant fade out

Answer 1

protected AlphaAnimation fadeIn = new AlphaAnimation(0.0f , 1.0f ) ; 
protected AlphaAnimation fadeOut = new AlphaAnimation( 1.0f , 0.0f ) ; 
txtView.startAnimation(fadeIn);
txtView.startAnimation(fadeOut);
fadeIn.setDuration(1200);
fadeIn.setFillAfter(true);
fadeOut.setDuration(1200);
fadeOut.setFillAfter(true);
fadeOut.setStartOffset(4200+fadeIn.getStartOffset());

Works perfectly for white backgrounds. Otherwise, you need to switch values when you instantiate AlphaAnimation class. Like this:

AlphaAnimation fadeIn = new AlphaAnimation( 1.0f , 0.0f ); 
AlphaAnimation fadeOut = new AlphaAnimation(0.0f , 1.0f ); 

This works with black background and white text color.