Android animation startOffset makes the target view blink and not animate
<p>I'm trying to create an animation which will slide a textview out to the left and slide in again from the right.  Essentially, this would be the same text effect used in the Stopwatch &amp; Timer app (sportstracklive is the developer).</p>

<p>I can use either of these animation sets exclusive of the other and it works fine, does exactly what I want.  But as soon as I try using them together, the TextView just blinks over the course about around 1 second.  Removing the startOffset works as expected.  Both animation sets run simultaneously.</p>

<p>Here's the XML:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"&gt;
    &lt;translate
        android:fromXDelta="0%" 
        android:toXDelta="-25%"
        android:fromYDelta="0%" 
        android:toYDelta="0%"
        android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime"
    /&gt;
    &lt;alpha
        android:interpolator="@android:anim/decelerate_interpolator"
        android:fromAlpha="1.0" 
        android:toAlpha="0.0"
        android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime"
    /&gt;
    &lt;set&gt;
        &lt;translate
            android:fromXDelta="25%" 
            android:toXDelta="0%"
            android:fromYDelta="0%" 
            android:toYDelta="0%"
            android:startOffset="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime"
            android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime"
        /&gt;
        &lt;alpha
            android:interpolator="@android:anim/decelerate_interpolator"
            android:fromAlpha="0.0" 
            android:toAlpha="1.0"
            android:startOffset="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime"
            android:duration="@android:integer/config_shortAnimTime"
        /&gt;
    &lt;/set&gt;
&lt;/set&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>And here's the lengthy Java code that runs it:</p>

<pre><code>    AnimationSet mSlideRightToLeft = 
        (AnimationSet) AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.slide_right_to_left);
    mMyTextView.startAnimation(mSlideRightToLeft);
</code></pre>
