Android is powerful mobile operating system but its animation capabilities and 3D libraries are not as widely talked about. Here is a quick summary of Android animation capability. Please add via comment if you have any useful links.
"Without writing any animation/drawing code, you can do 2 types of animations – layout transitions that affect ViewGroups, and sequences inside a View. You can also do frame by frame animation, but this tutorial will not cover that. The basics covered here affect layout transitions, and animation of a View itself, using tweening animation, which includes each of the following effects (or any combination) – Alpha, Rotate, Scale, and Translate."
"used sprite sheets and the functionality provided by the Android bitmap drawing functions to draw each frame of the animation. In a nutshell each frame of animation is set on a single bitmap one after the other. The animation code then plays one frame after the other until the animation is complete. Below is an example of a sprite of a bouncing color changing arrow."
