Q:

setAnimation on textView has no effect

I'm working on application, and I have an Activity where I have to show a TextView. 
Initially the TextView is invisible, but when I have to make it visible I set an animation before. The animation works fine on Alcatel One Touch API 17, HTC One X API 17 and Samsung S3 Neo API 19 but on the Nexus 5 API 23 it still uses the default animation while being visible (fade in). 
Is there any reason for that to happen? This is the code I use:
myTextView.setAnimation(AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getApplicationContext(), R.anim.come_in_from_left));
myTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

Edit
I just noticed that when im not on debugger the animation don't work at all on all the devices !!! it look like i need to keep my devices connected to ADB !!

A:

I finally resolve it , there was two issues :
First 
My TextView was inside a RelativeLayout which has a LinearLayout as parent,     the attribute andoid:animateLayoutChanges was first mentioned in the RelativeLayout,i moved it inside LinearLayout.
Second 
As mreza sh suggested to me , i replace setAnimation() with startAnimation() and call it after setVisibility()
Now it works fine on all devices , even disconnected from the debugger !

