See the solution I came up with as I had a similar issue with animations inside views in a recycler view, so I had to find a way to reset them: Trying to reset values from Property Animator to be used in recycler view Good news in Android O these will be better supported
ValueAnimator anim = ValueAnimator.ofInt(viewToIncreaseHeight.getMeasuredHeight(), -100); anim.addUpdateListener(new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() { @Override public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator valueAnimator) { int val = (Integer) valueAnimator.getAnimatedValue(); ViewGroup.LayoutParams layoutParams = viewToIncreaseHeight.getLayoutParams(); layoutParams.height = val; viewToIncreaseHeight.setLayoutParams(layoutParams); } }); anim.setDuration(DURATION); anim.start();