Yes, because they depend only by view, where they were defined. Also, when onDetachedFromWindow or setVisibility(GONE) is called, animation will be stopped, thus, updating listener will not be called over and over again.

So, when garbage collector will decide to delete this view or not, it will see that this view depends on listener and vice versa. So there is cyclic dependency, which can be recognized by garbage collector and, thus, removed.