Animate TableViewRow or build a custom table?

Hi! I'm trying to animate the height of a TableViewRow, using the usual animate method doesn't work:

var anim = Ti.UI.createAnimation({ height:100, duration:250 });
row.animate(anim);

Setting the height like this: row.height = 100 does cause an animation, but it's not very pretty. Is there a way to do it or should I just build a completely custom tableview with a scrollView and multiple Views for each row, and then animate on each view as I normally would.