I am having trouble applying an animation to a View. I am trying to load the animation from inside the constructor of a CursorAdapter, so I can set it later assign it to certain children in the list. In the constructor I have : shineAnimation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(ctx, R.anim.news_list_item_shine); the animation is in my res/anim dir <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:oneshot="true"> <item android:drawable="@drawable/shine1" android:duration="200" /> <item android:drawable="@drawable/shine2" android:duration="200" /> <item android:drawable="@drawable/shine3" android:duration="200" /> <item android:drawable="@drawable/shine4" android:duration="200" /> <item android:drawable="@drawable/shine5" android:duration="200" /> </animation-list> I'm getting an exception : Unknown animation name: animation-list Help would be much appreciated Thanks S