To implement Drawable Animation in Android follow the steps :-

1) Prepare a series of images with the individual frames of your animation. Add the images to your projects drawable folder.

2) Declare a XML file that defines the animation sequence that holds the list of drawables. Create a new file named pro_frame.xml and paste it to your project resource res/anim or res/drawable folder.

pro_frame.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run1" android:duration="80" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run2" android:duration="80" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run3" android:duration="80" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run4" android:duration="80" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run5" android:duration="80" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run6" android:duration="80" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run7" android:duration="80" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run8" android:duration="80" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run1" android:duration="210" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run2" android:duration="210" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run3" android:duration="210" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run4" android:duration="210" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run5" android:duration="210" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run6" android:duration="210" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run7" android:duration="210" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run8" android:duration="210" />
</animation-list>

3) Now declare an image view to your activity layout where the animation will be shown. In this example, I have declared an image view and two buttons Start and Stop to control the animation.

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.androinahi ..................d.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".MainActivity">


    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"
        android:adjustViewBounds="true" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
        android:orientation="horizontal">

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/start"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="0.5"
            android:text="Start" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/stop"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="0.5"
            android:text="Stop" />
    </LinearLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

4) Now that we are ready with the animation sequence, we need to add this Drawable as a background resource for our ImageView in our MainActivity.

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private ImageView mImageView;
    private Button mStartButton,mStopButton;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        mImageView=(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView); // Type casting the Image View
        mStartButton=(Button)findViewById(R.id.start);
        mStopButton=(Button)findViewById(R.id.stop);
        mImageView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.pro_frame);// Setting animation_list.xml as the background of the image view
        final AnimationDrawable frameAnimation=(AnimationDrawable) mImageView.getBackground();// Type casting the Animation drawable
        frameAnimation.setOneShot(true);//set true if you want to animate only once
        mStartButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                frameAnimation.start();
            }
        });
        mStopButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                frameAnimation.stop();
            }
        });
    }