You change margin, but not its position and, it seems, it's not a good solution.
Try to use method View.layout(int, int, int, int)
Documentation says:
public void layout (int l, int t, int r, int b)
Since: API Level 1
Assign a size and position to a view and all of its descendants
This is the second phase of the layout mechanism. (The first is measuring).
In this phase, each parent calls layout on all of its children to position them.
This is typically done using the child measurements that were stored in
the measure pass(). Derived classes should not override this method. Derived
classes with children should override onLayout. In that method, they should call
layout on each of their children.
Parameters
l Left position, relative to parent
t Top position, relative to parent
r Right position, relative to parent
b Bottom position, relative to parent