There are several animation types available for different levels of platform. The oldest supported type is simple view animations such as property, tween, and frame by frame animations.
There is a more comprehensive version in later platform versions and even newer ones in KitKat 4.4. Check out the videos below for detailed information about the new forms of animation. If you wanted to use these animations on older OS versions, you can use NineOldAndroids that backports animations to Android 1.0.