title: Get the current frame in a Frame Animation
body: <p>I need to check the current frame in a Frame Animated ImageView, but I don't see a way how. I cannot find a method for getting the current frame, and I can't get the current image of the Imageview with getImageResource() because the resource is the current frame of the stopped animation, not the image it's self.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea what I could do to find what the current frame is?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  The solution ended up meaning writing my own Frame animation code:</p>
  
  <p>To start the animation, call downDown();</p>
  
  <p>To stop the Animation, set  go = false;</p>
  
  <p>The boolean 'go' , the string 'most_recent', and the handler 'mHandlerDown' are declared globally.</p>
  
  <pre><code>mHandler = new Handler();
  private void downDown(){
      if(go ==true){
          Runnable updateTask = new Runnable() {
             public void run() {  
                 ImageView lid = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.lid); // the Imageview that will be animated
                 if (most_recent =="l1"){ //this loop checks the most recent frame updates with the next 
                     lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l2);
                     most_recent="l2";
                } else if (most_recent =="l2"){
                     lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l3);
                     most_recent="l3";
               } else if (most_recent =="l3"){
                 lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l4);
                 most_recent="l4";
               } else if (most_recent =="l4"){
                 lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l5);
                 most_recent="l5";
            } else if (most_recent =="l5"){
                 lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l6);
                 most_recent="l6";
           } else if (most_recent =="l6"){
                 lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l7);
                 most_recent="l7";
           } else if (most_recent =="l7"){
             lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l8);
             most_recent="l8";
        } else if (most_recent =="l8"){
             lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l9);
             most_recent="l9";
       } else if (most_recent =="l9"){
             lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l10);
             most_recent="l10";
      } else if (most_recent =="l10"){
             lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l11);
             most_recent="l11";
        } else if (most_recent =="l11"){
             lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l12);
             most_recent="l12";
       }else if (most_recent == "l12"){
           lid.setImageResource(R.drawable.l13);
             most_recent="l13"; 
       }
              downDownCall();  
  
             }
       };
              mHandlerDown.removeCallbacks(updatetask);
              mHandlerDown.postDelayed(updateTask, 40);
  
  }
  }
  private void downDownCall(){
      if(go== true){
          downDown();
      }
  }
  </code></pre>