title: Android Animation Starting Position
body: <p>I have a chat client that looks similar to Google Hangouts.  At the bottom I have a edittext box for the message entry and to the right I have the send button.  I can animate the send button based on if the user has text in the message box using addTextChangedListener.  But the initial position of the send button should be off screen because the user has not entered any text yet.  Once the user enters text, the send button should slide in from the right.  I need help to figure out how to initially position the send button off screen and animate it onto the screen next to the message edittext.    </p>
  
  <p>To animate the Send button, I used property animators ... </p>
  
  <p>send.animate().xBy( -send.getWidth() ).setDuration( 1000 );</p>
  
  <p>Thanks all for the help!</p>