Animated Stroke. The google I/O website this year (https://google.com/io) has some funky animated lettering. I especially liked the animated stroke around the letters and wondered how you might implement that on Android. Turns out that AnimatedVectorDrawable makes this very easy! Here's how it looks: https://twitter.com/crafty/status/71077957997…

1_drawable_ic_hash_io16.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
  Copyright 2016 Google Inc.

  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.
  -->

<vector
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:width="360dp"
    android:height="200dp"
    android:viewportWidth="360"
    android:viewportHeight="200">

    <path
        android:name="hash"
        android:pathData="M39,45L39,80 M57,45L57,80 M66,54L31,54 M66,71L31,71"
        android:strokeColor="@color/indigo_400"
        android:strokeLineCap="round"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width" />

    <path
        android:name="i_body"
        android:pathData="M83,82L107,82A2,2 0,0 1,109 84L109,155A2,2 0,0 1,107 157L83,157A2,2 0,0 1,81 155L81,84A2,2 0,0 1,83 82z"
        android:strokeColor="@color/indigo_400"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width" />

    <path
        android:name="i_dot"
        android:pathData="M94,59m-14,0a14,14 0,1 1,28 0a14,14 0,1 1,-28 0"
        android:strokeColor="@color/indigo_400"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width" />

    <path
        android:name="o"
        android:pathData="M159.5,119.5m-37.5,0a37.5,37.5 0,1 1,75 0a37.5,37.5 0,1 1,-75 0"
        android:strokeColor="@color/indigo_400"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width" />

    <!-- Here's the trick, we place four copies of the path for the number one on top of each other.
         We then set different trim values to show only a quarter of each path. We can then animate
         the trimPathOffset property to make the shown segment describe the whole path. -->
    <path
        android:name="one_1"
        android:pathData="@string/path_one"
        android:strokeColor="@color/cyan_a100"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width"
        android:trimPathStart="0"
        android:trimPathEnd="0.25" />

    <path
        android:name="one_2"
        android:pathData="@string/path_one"
        android:strokeColor="@color/pink_500"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width"
        android:trimPathStart="0.25"
        android:trimPathEnd="0.5" />

    <path
        android:name="one_3"
        android:pathData="@string/path_one"
        android:strokeColor="@color/indigo_400"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width"
        android:trimPathStart="0.5"
        android:trimPathEnd="0.75" />

    <path
        android:name="one_4"
        android:pathData="@string/path_one"
        android:strokeColor="@color/cyan_300"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width"
        android:trimPathStart="0.75"
        android:trimPathEnd="0" />

    <!-- we do the same for the number six. -->
    <path
        android:name="six_1"
        android:pathData="@string/path_funky_six"
        android:strokeColor="@color/cyan_a100"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width"
        android:trimPathStart="0"
        android:trimPathEnd="0.25" />

    <path
        android:name="six_2"
        android:pathData="@string/path_funky_six"
        android:strokeColor="@color/pink_500"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width"
        android:trimPathStart="0.25"
        android:trimPathEnd="0.5" />

    <path
        android:name="six_3"
        android:pathData="@string/path_funky_six"
        android:strokeColor="@color/indigo_400"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width"
        android:trimPathStart="0.5"
        android:trimPathEnd="0.75" />

    <path
        android:name="six_4"
        android:pathData="@string/path_funky_six"
        android:strokeColor="@color/cyan_300"
        android:strokeWidth="@dimen/hashtag_stroke_width"
        android:trimPathStart="0.75"
        android:trimPathEnd="0" />

</vector>

2_drawable_avd_hash_9016.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
  Copyright 2016 Google Inc.

  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.
  -->

<animated-vector
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:drawable="@drawable/ic_hashtag">

    <target
        android:name="one_1"
        android:animation="@animator/offset_trim_one" />

    <target
        android:name="one_2"
        android:animation="@animator/offset_trim_one" />

    <target
        android:name="one_3"
        android:animation="@animator/offset_trim_one" />

    <target
        android:name="one_4"
        android:animation="@animator/offset_trim_one" />

    <target
        android:name="six_1"
        android:animation="@animator/offset_trim_six" />

    <target
        android:name="six_2"
        android:animation="@animator/offset_trim_six" />

    <target
        android:name="six_3"
        android:animation="@animator/offset_trim_six" />

    <target
        android:name="six_4"
        android:animation="@animator/offset_trim_six" />

</animated-vector>

3_values_hash_io16.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
  Copyright 2016 Google Inc.

  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.
  -->

<!-- Define elements that are repeated here and reference them so that we only have to update them
     in one place. -->
<resources>

    <string name="path_funky_six">M302.14,60.72C302.29,61.46 276.46,97.06 270.1,112.55C260.87,138.44 278.6,149.83 284.3,152.76C299.15,160.38 316.85,150.27 323.08,141.43C329.3,132.59 333.05,109.99 316.85,100.57C306.85,94.75 290.54,97.32 290.2,97.06C289.85,96.79 276.32,81.31 276.46,80.88C276.6,80.45 294.73,77.62 302.88,84.28C315.76,92.99 315.62,114.99 306.84,127.42C298.06,139.85 276.46,144.38 260.54,130.73C238.46,111.79 259.06,85.64 260.87,83.1C260.87,83.1 286.23,46.19 286.83,46.03C287.43,45.87 301.99,59.99 302.14,60.72Z</string>
    <string name="path_one">M211,45L235,45A2,2 0,0 1,237 47L237,155A2,2 0,0 1,235 157L211,157A2,2 0,0 1,209 155L209,47A2,2 0,0 1,211 45z</string>
    <item name="hashtag_stroke_width" type="dimen" format="float">5</item>

</resources>

4_animator_offset_trim_one.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
  Copyright 2016 Google Inc.

  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.
  -->

<!-- we use separate anims for the 1/6 to allow different durations (as the path lengths are
     different, using the same duration produces different speeds). -->
<objectAnimator
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:propertyName="trimPathOffset"
    android:valueFrom="0"
    android:valueTo="1"
    android:duration="4000"
    android:interpolator="@android:interpolator/linear"
    android:repeatCount="infinite"
    android:repeatMode="restart" />

5_animator_offset_trim_six.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
  Copyright 2016 Google Inc.

  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.
  -->

<!-- we use separate anims for the 1/6 to allow different durations (as the path lengths are
     different, using the same duration produces different speeds). -->
<objectAnimator
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:propertyName="trimPathOffset"
    android:valueFrom="0"
    android:valueTo="1"
    android:duration="5000"
    android:interpolator="@android:interpolator/linear"
    android:repeatCount="infinite"
    android:repeatMode="restart" />