How to make text fade in and out in Android?

You seem to be setting the animation to in right after you had set it to out. This makes only the “in” animation work.

To make the second animation start right after the first, you can add a listener to your first animation:

out.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {

    @Override
    public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
        mSwitcher.setText("New Text");
        mSwitcher.startAnimation(in);

    }
});

Then, in your onClick() method:

public void onClick(View v) {

    mSwitcher.startAnimation(out);

}

That should do the trick.

Another approach is to use AnimationSet.

final Animation in = new AlphaAnimation(0.0f, 1.0f);
in.setDuration(3000);

final Animation out = new AlphaAnimation(1.0f, 0.0f);
out.setDuration(3000);

AnimationSet as = new AnimationSet(true);
as.addAnimation(out);
in.setStartOffset(3000);
as.addAnimation(in);

Then, instead of starting out, start as.

I hope this helps!