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Answer : While maybe gifsockets would work (I haven't tried that before...), there is no network traffic while I am looking at the image other than the initial image load. I am also seeing it it jump from 41 to 42 again. A Reload took it down to 39. It appears to be just a script that generates 60 frames of animation and sends them to the user. This could probably be done in any language. Here is how it is done in php: http://seanja.com/secret/countdown/ I found http://sendtric.com/ which is free and very easy to integrate.

Answer : Try the following: @Override public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent motionEvent) { int action = motionEvent.getAction(); if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) { v.animate().scaleXBy(100f).setDuration(5000).start(); v.animate().scaleYBy(100f).setDuration(5000).start(); return true; } else if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) { v.animate().cancel(); v.animate().scaleX(1f).setDuration(1000).start(); v.animate().scaleY(1f).setDuration(1000).start(); return true; } return false; } This should do the trick ;)