Instead of doing self.view = view; like I am currently I want to present this view with animation. It is not an entire view controller but just a view, I am just replacing the current view with this view on a button click.
Is there anyway to do this animated?
Thanks in advance.
Try something like:
UIView *newView = ...;
// new view is added as a subview somewhere
newView.alpha = 0;
[UIView animateWithDuration:1
animations:^{
newView.alpha = 1;
}];
Which will fade the view in. You could also look at animateWithDuration:delay:options:animations:completion: which provides other animation options. Or transitionFromView:toView:duration:options:completion:.
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I’m trying to make an iOS Action app extension with minimal UI. Basically it would just show a progress indicator until the action completed. I just want to be able to animate the view so that it slides down from the top & then slides back up when the action has completed. If anyone is familiar with Instapaper’s Share extension, then that’s the kind of basic UI I’m looking for.
The problem is that when I try to duplicate this functionality - I just have a small UIView that animates down from the top - I get a black background behind my view. I can’t figure out how to make that background transparent so that the stuff behind my view is still visible. Does anyone know how to do this?
As a starting point I’m just using the default Action Extension template that’s created by Xcode...
Create a new iOS app project in Xcode.
Add a new target -> Action Extension.
In the ActionViewController.m file add a viewWillAppear method to animate the view (using a 1 second animation so that the black background is easily seen):
Code:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
CGRect currFrame = self.view.frame;
CGRect newFrame = currFrame;
newFrame.origin.y -= newFrame.size.height;
self.view.frame = newFrame;
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 animations:^{
self.view.frame = currFrame;
}];
}
When this is run the view is animated sliding down from the top. However rather than seeing the UI of the calling App all you see is a black background.
I’ve tried a number of things - changing the modalPresentationStyle (doesn’t seem to do anything), setting the entire view to hidden (this just makes the whole screen black), etc.
For reference this is using iOS 9.3.2 and Xcode 7.3.1.
From what I understand from Apple docs
In iOS, an Action extension:
Helps users view the current document in a different way
Always appears in an action sheet or full-screen modal view
Receives selected content only if explicitly provided by the host app
The fact that the Action extension always appear in a full-screen view on an iPhone might mean that there's no way of having a transparent background.
I am certain that a Share extension can be animated (I've done it myself) how you want it and have a transparent background. That's why Instapaper's Share extension works nicely.
You are facing two problems:
1. When you present a view controller, the default behavior is the controller is full screen context. That is the reason you see a black screen.
2. You are trying to change self.view.frame when the controller is presented on full screen.
Yet there is a way to achieve this kind of behavior you are looking for, in one of three ways:
A. Specify "modalPresentationStyle" to "UIModalPresentationOverCurrentContext" and set the presenting controller to "definesPresentationContext".
That way, when you present the controller, the presenting controller will be behind the presented controller.
And insted of changing self.view.frame you will set self.view background color to clear, and add a subview and use it as a background view:
//Presenting view controller:
-(void) presentPopUpViewController {
self.definesPresentationContext = YES; //self is presenting view controller
self.presentedVC.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationOverCurrentContext;
[self presentViewController:self.presentedVC animated:NO completion:nil];
}
//Presented view controller:
-(void) viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
CGRect currFrame = self.view.frame;
CGRect newFrame = currFrame;
newFrame.origin.y -= newFrame.size.height;
self.myBackroundView = [[UIView alloc] init];
self.myBackroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor yellowColor];
self.myBackroundView.frame = newFrame;
[self.view addSubview:self.myBackroundView];
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
}
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
[UIView animateWithDuration:5.0 animations:^{
self.myBackroundView.frame = self.view.frame;
}];
}
B. Add the presented view controller as a Child view controller. that way the life cycle stays the same, but you can add I'ts view as a subview, and change I'ts frame.
//Presenting view controller:
-(void) presentChildViewController {
[self addChildViewController:self.presentedVC];
[self.view addSubview:self.presentedVC.view];
[self.presentedVC didMoveToParentViewController:self];
}
//Presented view controller:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
CGRect currFrame = self.view.frame;
CGRect newFrame = currFrame;
newFrame.origin.y -= newFrame.size.height;
self.view.frame = newFrame;
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 animations:^{
self.view.frame = currFrame;
}];
}
C. Don't use UIViewController, use UIView. Use a "Decorator" object, that you pass it the ViewController you would like the view to disaply on, and the "Decorator" will add the view as subview, and deal with the animation. No need for an example for this scenario.
It is wrong to start animations when your view hasn't yet appeared. Can you, please, try the same code in viewDidAppear.
Also animating main view controller's view will make underlying layers visible, so you've got to use another view on top of view controller's main view, like this:
UIView *progressView = [[UIView alloc] init];
progressView.frame = self.view.bounds;
progressView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
[self.view addSubView:progressView];
I want to present a child view controller by dropping it from top to the bottom. The child view controller is a UICollectionViewController with several cells in it. I can use the iOS7 UIViewControllerContextTransitioning for the dropping down view controller transition. But if I want only the collection view to bounce (like a ball hit on the ground) when the child view controller is presented, how should I do?
I have try to use UIKit Dynamics and create some UIAnimatorBehavior on the UICollectionView after the transition, like UIGravityBehavior and UIPushBehavior. But they don't seem to work. Maybe I am using them in the wrong way. Is there anyone can give me some hints?
Update
After tried several solutions, I finally came out a solution which is pretty close to what I want. This video shows the result: http://youtu.be/tueXDBMsdt0
But I think there should be a better solution for that. And here is my solution's steps:
Create a UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning object, which animate the view controller transition from top to bottom.
The child view controller is a UICollectionViewController. At the end of transition animation, I set child view controller's scrollview content offset to (0, -30), and then complete the transition.
In child view controller's viewDidAppear, animate the content offset back to (0, 0).
Besides, I also follow the instructions in the article: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/implementing-a-bouncy-uicollectionviewlayout-with-uikit-dynamics/ to set UIKit dynamics animator in cells. When the content offset is changed, then the cells will look like bouncing.
The transition animation code looks like this:
- (void) animateTransition:(id<UIViewControllerContextTransitioning>)transitionContext {
UIViewController *fromViewController = [transitionContext viewControllerForKey:UITransitionContextFromViewControllerKey];
UIViewController *toViewController = [transitionContext viewControllerForKey:UITransitionContextToViewControllerKey];
CGRect frame = [[transitionContext containerView] frame];
CGRect startFrame = frame;
startFrame.origin.y -= CGRectGetHeight(transitionContext.containerView.frame);
[transitionContext.containerView addSubview:fromViewController.view];
[transitionContext.containerView addSubview:toViewController.view];
toViewController.view.frame = startFrame;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.4 delay:0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseIn animations:^{
toViewController.view.frame = frame;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished) {
((UICollectionViewController*)toViewController).contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, -30);
[transitionContext completeTransition:YES];
}];
}
And in child view controller viewDidAppear:
- (void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
[self.collectionView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, 0) animated:YES];
}
But I would still want the cell to bounce more naturally. Any other better solutions?
Important: this can now be done in iOS in one simple line of code:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/23514653/294884
Detailed answer when fuller control is needed:
If you want the same effect between the Screen lock and the Camera on the iPhone, you can use UIViewControllerContextTransitioning
There are a good tutorial here http://www.objc.io/issue-5/view-controller-transitions.html
and here http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/custom-uiviewcontroller-transitions/
if you have a Apple developer account, there are a video about View controller transition : https://developer.apple.com/tech-talks/videos/
The video is named "Architecting Modern Apps, Part 1"
This way work only on iOS7!
Do any of you know how I could possibly add an animation that is triggered when a UIButton is pressed, and the UIButton turns aand enlarges at the same time, and on the other side I can show another view? A bit like in dashboard on a Mac, with the info button on the widgets...
You can use transitions:
[UIView transitionWithView:containerView duration:1 options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromLeft animations:^{
buttonView.hidden = YES;
otherView1.hidden = NO;
otherView2.hidden = NO;
otherViewEtc.hidden = NO;
} completion:nil];
You would then have a containerView which contains the flip button and the alternate view hidden, and in the transition, you can hide the first view and show the alternate view...
I have programmed the following animation for an UIImageView which works fine when I load the View:
-(void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated{
[UIView animateWithDuration:2
delay:0
options:UIViewAnimationOptionRepeat | UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse
animations:^{
hat.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(0.2);
}completion:nil
];
}
Then I push a new View Controller on top of this view, but when I pop this new view controller, the animation doesn't fire... I've tried placing this animation code in viewDidload and in viewWillAppear but that didn't help... Any thoughts?
is it possible that the UIImage view is getting unloaded? If you haven't already try setting strong/retain property to your UIImageView.
I want to do animation like NavigationController pushviewcontroller's animation.
but I don't have a NavigationController, I don't want to make it.
So I want to ask is it possible to do it's animation in UIViewController? thanks!
oh forgot to say, I'm trying to switch view after clicking button.
Using presentModalViewController now, but I don't like it's animation..
You could animate the origin property of your sub view, make it decreasing along the x axis just after adding it to the main view.
EDIT :
Use something like this :
// retrieve the screen bounds
CGRect sBounds = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
// the origin point is just on the right of the screen
CGRect newFrame = CGRectMake(sBounds.size.width,
0.0,
sBounds.size.width,
sBounds.size.height);
// set your view frame
[mySecondView setFrame:newFrame];
// add it to the main view
[mainView addSubview:mySecondView];
// then animate your view
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5 // set the interval you want
animations:^{
mySecondView.frame.origin = sBounds.origin;
}
];
I would use a navigation controller and hide the navigation bar, but as you don't want to do that you can switch between views using [UIView beginAnimantion: #"myAnimation" withContext: nil]; and changing the frame or the origin.