How can I scale textviews using shared element transitions?

This was covered in one of the Google I/O 2016 talks. The source for the transition which you can copy into your code is found here. If your IDE complains the addTarget(TextView.class); requires API 21, just remove the constructor and add the target either dynamically or in your xml.

i.e. (note this is in Kotlin)

val textResizeTransition = TextResize().addTarget(view.findViewById(R.id.text_view))

I used solution from Alex Lockwood and simplified the use (it's only for TextSize of a TextView), I hope this will help:

public class Activity2 extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity2);

        EnterSharedElementTextSizeHandler handler = new EnterSharedElementTextSizeHandler(this);

        handler.addTextViewSizeResource((TextView) findViewById(R.id.timer),
                R.dimen.small_text_size, R.dimen.large_text_size);
    }
}

and the class EnterSharedElementTextSizeHandler:

public class EnterSharedElementTextSizeHandler extends SharedElementCallback {

    private final TransitionSet mTransitionSet;
    private final Activity mActivity;

    public Map<TextView, Pair<Integer, Integer>> textViewList = new HashMap<>();


    public EnterSharedElementTextSizeHandler(Activity activity) {

        mActivity = activity;

        Transition transitionWindow = activity.getWindow().getSharedElementEnterTransition();

        if (!(transitionWindow instanceof TransitionSet)) {
            mTransitionSet = new TransitionSet();
            mTransitionSet.addTransition(transitionWindow);
        } else {
            mTransitionSet = (TransitionSet) transitionWindow;
        }

        activity.setEnterSharedElementCallback(this);

    }


    public void addTextViewSizeResource(TextView tv, int sizeBegin, int sizeEnd) {

        Resources res = mActivity.getResources();
        addTextView(tv,
                res.getDimensionPixelSize(sizeBegin),
                res.getDimensionPixelSize(sizeEnd));
    }

    public void addTextView(TextView tv, int sizeBegin, int sizeEnd) {

        Transition textSize = new TextSizeTransition();
        textSize.addTarget(tv.getId());
        textSize.addTarget(tv.getText().toString());
        mTransitionSet.addTransition(textSize);

        textViewList.put(tv, new Pair<>(sizeBegin, sizeEnd));
    }

    @Override
    public void onSharedElementStart(List<String> sharedElementNames, List<View> sharedElements, List<View> sharedElementSnapshots) {

        for (View v : sharedElements) {

            if (!textViewList.containsKey(v)) {
                continue;
            }

            ((TextView) v).setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, textViewList.get(v).first);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onSharedElementEnd(List<String> sharedElementNames, List<View> sharedElements, List<View> sharedElementSnapshots) {
        for (View v : sharedElements) {

            if (!textViewList.containsKey(v)) {
                continue;
            }

            TextView textView = (TextView) v;

            // Record the TextView's old width/height.
            int oldWidth = textView.getMeasuredWidth();
            int oldHeight = textView.getMeasuredHeight();

            // Setup the TextView's end values.
            textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, textViewList.get(v).second);

            // Re-measure the TextView (since the text size has changed).
            int widthSpec = View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
            int heightSpec = View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
            textView.measure(widthSpec, heightSpec);

            // Record the TextView's new width/height.
            int newWidth = textView.getMeasuredWidth();
            int newHeight = textView.getMeasuredHeight();

            // Layout the TextView in the center of its container, accounting for its new width/height.
            int widthDiff = newWidth - oldWidth;
            int heightDiff = newHeight - oldHeight;
            textView.layout(textView.getLeft() - widthDiff / 2, textView.getTop() - heightDiff / 2,
                    textView.getRight() + widthDiff / 2, textView.getBottom() + heightDiff / 2);
        }
    }
}

Edit:

As pointed out by Kiryl Tkach in the comments below, there is a better solution described in this Google I/O talk.

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You can create a custom transition that animates a TextView's text size as follows:

public class TextSizeTransition extends Transition {
    private static final String PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE = "alexjlockwood:transition:textsize";
    private static final String[] TRANSITION_PROPERTIES = { PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE };

    private static final Property<TextView, Float> TEXT_SIZE_PROPERTY =
            new Property<TextView, Float>(Float.class, "textSize") {
                @Override
                public Float get(TextView textView) {
                    return textView.getTextSize();
                }

                @Override
                public void set(TextView textView, Float textSizePixels) {
                    textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, textSizePixels);
                }
            };

    public TextSizeTransition() {
    }

    public TextSizeTransition(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    public String[] getTransitionProperties() {
        return TRANSITION_PROPERTIES;
    }

    @Override
    public void captureStartValues(TransitionValues transitionValues) {
        captureValues(transitionValues);
    }

    @Override
    public void captureEndValues(TransitionValues transitionValues) {
        captureValues(transitionValues);
    }

    private void captureValues(TransitionValues transitionValues) {
        if (transitionValues.view instanceof TextView) {
            TextView textView = (TextView) transitionValues.view;
            transitionValues.values.put(PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE, textView.getTextSize());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Animator createAnimator(ViewGroup sceneRoot, TransitionValues startValues, 
                                   TransitionValues endValues) {
        if (startValues == null || endValues == null) {
            return null;
        }

        Float startSize = (Float) startValues.values.get(PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE);
        Float endSize = (Float) endValues.values.get(PROPNAME_TEXT_SIZE);
        if (startSize == null || endSize == null || 
            startSize.floatValue() == endSize.floatValue()) {
            return null;
        }

        TextView view = (TextView) endValues.view;
        view.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, startSize);
        return ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(view, TEXT_SIZE_PROPERTY, startSize, endSize);
    }
}

Since changing the TextView's text size will cause its layout bounds to change during the course of the animation, getting the transition to work properly will take a little more effort than simply throwing a ChangeBounds transition into the same TransitionSet. What you will need to do instead is manually measure/layout the view in its end state in a SharedElementCallback.

I've published an example project on GitHub that illustrates the concept (note that the project defines two Gradle product flavors... one uses Activity Transitions and the other uses Fragment Transitions).