Slide a layout up from bottom of screen

Question

I have a layout hidden from the view. On a button click I want it to slide up from the bottom pushing the entire screen contents upwards, very similar to how whatsapp shows emoticons panel in chat screen.

I have seen SlidingDrawer, that dosen't work for me. It requires an image as an handle which is shown at the center of the screen, I don't want that. It also slides over the existing screen content, I am looking for a way to move the existing content upwards.

Update 1:

I tried using the animations as suggested by Sanket Kachhela. But the hidden layout is never shown. Here is the code.

Layout (activity_main.xml):

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/main_screen"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello_world" 
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"/>

     <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text="@string/hello_world" 
       android:layout_centerInParent="true"/>

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Slide up / down"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" 
        android:onClick="slideUpDown"/>

</RelativeLayout>

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/hidden_panel"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_below="@id/main_screen">

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/app_name" />

</RelativeLayout>

Activity (MainActivity.java):

package com.example.slideuplayout;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.animation.Animation;
import android.view.animation.AnimationUtils;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private ViewGroup hiddenPanel;
private boolean isPanelShown;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    hiddenPanel = (ViewGroup)findViewById(R.id.hidden_panel);
    hiddenPanel.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    isPanelShown = false;
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

public void slideUpDown(final View view) {
    if(!isPanelShown) {
        // Show the panel
        Animation bottomUp = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this,
                R.anim.bottom_up);

        hiddenPanel.startAnimation(bottomUp);
        hiddenPanel.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        isPanelShown = true;
    }
    else {
        // Hide the Panel
        Animation bottomDown = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this,
                R.anim.bottom_down);

        hiddenPanel.startAnimation(bottomDown);
        hiddenPanel.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        isPanelShown = false;
    }
}

}

Animations:

bottom_up.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <translate 
       android:fromYDelta="75%p"
       android:toYDelta="0%p"
       android:fillAfter="true"
       android:duration="500" />
</set>

bottom_down.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<translate 
    android:fromYDelta="0%p" 
    android:toYDelta="100%p" 
    android:fillAfter="true"
    android:interpolator="@android:anim/linear_interpolator"
    android:duration="500" />
</set>

Any ideas how this can be done ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use these animations:

bottom_up.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
   <translate android:fromYDelta="75%p" android:toYDelta="0%p" 
    android:fillAfter="true"
 android:duration="500"/>
</set>

bottom_down.xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<translate android:fromYDelta="0%p" android:toYDelta="100%p" android:fillAfter="true"
            android:interpolator="@android:anim/linear_interpolator"
    android:duration="500" />

</set>

Use this code in your activity for hiding/animating your view:

Animation bottomUp = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getContext(),
            R.anim.bottom_up);
ViewGroup hiddenPanel = (ViewGroup)findViewById(R.id.hidden_panel);
hiddenPanel.startAnimation(bottomUp);
hiddenPanel.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);