UILabel animate the width - ios

Question

How do we go about animating the UILabel's width so that it increases and decreases in width only using UIView animateWithDuration
Thank you for your help (at this point i'm so frustrated as I've been trying to do so but it does not work)

Answer 1

You can set the frame of the UILabel inside the UIView animation block. Something like this:
CGRect originalFrame = self.address.frame;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3
animations:^{
self.myLabel.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100);
}
completion:^(BOOL finished) {
// use similar UIView animation to resize back to original
}];
Obviously the dimensions you feed in will depend on your app, and may be calculated based on the content.

Answer 2

try to increase and decrease the frame width with an animation as below
// original label frame CGRectMake( 0,0, 100,60 );
[UIView beginAnimations: #"moveLogo" context: nil];
[UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0];
[UIView setAnimationCurve: UIViewAnimationCurveLinear];
[UIView setAnimationRepeatAutoreverses:YES];
[UIView setAnimationRepeatCount:4];
//increasing frame width
label.frame = CGRectMake( 0,0, 400,60 );
[UIView commitAnimations];

Answer 3

finally did it like this with blocks in iOS 5.0
[UIView animateWithDuration:2. delay:0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse|UIViewAnimationOptionBeginFromCurrentState animations:^{
[self.messageLabel setFrame:CGRectMake(90, 0, labelSize.width, 90)];
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
}];

Answer 4

Try this
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.6 animations:^(void)
{
self.label.bounds = CGRectMake(100, 100, 200, 100);
}completion:^(BOOL finished) {
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.6 animations:^(void)
{
self.label.bounds = CGRectMake(100, 100, 100, 100);
}];
}];

Answer 5

I was able to do it in this way. self refers to the view in which i'm adding the label. in the init, add the label with width as 1 px. then use the below.. the UIViewAnimationOptionBeginFromCurrentState allows it to be opened like a door PHEW!
[UIView animateWithDuration:1. delay:0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionBeginFromCurrentState animations:^{
[self setFrame:CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x-labelSize.width-PADDING, self.frame.origin.y, self.frame.size.width+labelSize.width+PADDING, self.frame.size.height)];
[self.messageLabel setFrame:CGRectMake(95, 10, labelSize.width, labelSize.height)];
self.messageLabel.alpha = 1;
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
[UIView animateWithDuration:1. delay:2. options:0 animations:^{
self.messageLabel.alpha = 0;
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
[UIView animateWithDuration:1. delay:0. options:0 animations:^{
[self setFrame:CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x+labelSize.width+PADDING, self.frame.origin.y, self.frame.size.width-labelSize.width-PADDING, self.frame.size.height)];
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
}];
}];
}];