Use setUpdateListener on api level lower than 19

Question

For an animation i have to listen to every step of the ViewPropertyAnimator. I use the AnimatorUpdateListener in combination with the setUpdateListener.
source: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewPropertyAnimator.html

Example how i use it:

image.animate().translationY(transY).setDuration(duration).setUpdateListener(new AnimatorUpdateListener() {

       @Override
       public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) {
           // do my things
       }
});

Now im moving an object from A to B and have to detect some things while moving. Now setUpdateListener is really helpful with this, and with this code it all works. But its requires api level 19. I really want to use api level 14 for this project. Is there an alternative for setUpdateListener?

ViewPropertyAnimator.setUpdateListener

Call requires api level 19 (current min is 14)

Answer 1

Below is an improvement of Zsolt's answer with the listener code in one place and a code-level check of the API version:

ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener updateListener = new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() {
    @Override
    public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) {
        // do my things
    }     
};

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
    image.animate()
          .translationY(transY)
          .setDuration(duration)
          .setUpdateListener(updateListener);
} else {

    ObjectAnimator oa = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(image, View.TRANSLATION_Y, transY)
                                  .setDuration(duration);
    oa.addUpdateListener(updateListener);
    oa.start();
}

Answer 2

With API level 19 or above you can say

image.animate()
     .translationY(transY)
     .setDuration(duration)
     .setUpdateListener(new AnimatorUpdateListener() {

         @Override
         public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) {
             // do my things
         }

     });

With API level 11 or above you can resort to:

ObjectAnimator oa = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(image, View.TRANSLATION_Y, transY)
                                  .setDuration(duration);
oa.addUpdateListener(new ValueAnimator.AnimatorUpdateListener() {
    @Override
    public void onAnimationUpdate(ValueAnimator animation) {
        // do my things
    }
});
oa.start();

NOTE: While ViewProperyAnimator calls View.setHasTransientState() under the hood for the animated view, ObjectAnimator does not. This can result in different behavior when doing custom (i.e. not with ItemAnimator) RecyclerView item animations.