Android animation happening after updates displayed

So, I finally got my Animation sorted out (thanks to all that helped!). However, I still have the problem that the animation i开发者_Go百科s only displayed AFTER the other updates to the layout are.

What I am doing is dealing out a card to a user. The animation shows the card sliding across the table. However, the animation itself shows after the updates to the player's hand and the cards on the table are shown.

I tried making the update a separate thread and waiting on it but then I can't update the UI directly from there. Sending a message to the UI thread doesn't help because the separate thread then ends after sending the message and I am back where I started.

I guess I am probably doing something wrong or missing something simple. Any help would be appreciated.

Finally got it sorted out.

I built my own animation class which implements AnimationListener. I then use onAnimationEnd to make the changes in the so that they happen after the animation.