How to animate fragment removal

I saw this when I was having similar problems and just thought Id drop a quick note.

Rather than creating a dummy fragment in order to replace the existing one I think you should animate the current fragments view. When the animation finishes you can simply remove the fragment.

This is how i did it:

final FragmentActivity a = getSherlockActivity();

if (a != null) {
    //Your animation
    Animation animation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(a, R.anim.bottom_out);
    animation.setDuration(getResources().getInteger(android.R.integer.config_shortAnimTime));

    //You can use AnimationListener, MagicAnimationListener is simply a class extending it.
    animation.setAnimationListener(new MagicAnimationListener() {
        @Override
        public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
            //This is the key, when the animation is finished, remove the fragment.
            try {
                FragmentTransaction ft = a.getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
                ft.remove(RestTimerFragment.this);
                ft.commitAllowingStateLoss();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    });

    //Start the animation.  
    getView().startAnimation(animation);
}