How can I animate individual characters in a TextView?

I'm trying to take the text displayed in a TextView and apply tweening to individual charact开发者_如何学Goers. I can't think of how to accomplish this without having a separate view for each character. I hope that's not the only way to solve this problem, because it just seems incredibly messy.

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create your own custom view, and use that. you can animate them in every way you like, using canvas you have given in onDraw() method.

this may help: http://www.apleben.com/2011/01/custom-android-view-the-definition/