Animate image like deleting Apps from iPad/iPhone - ios

I have a ScrollView with several UIButtons (custom type). The UIButtons are shown as Images. I made it to subclass UIButton to shoot an event if the user taps on a button for a long time (approx. 3 seconds).
If a user tap's one of the subclassed UIButtons i thought about animating the selected UIButton the way the apps are animated if you want to delete them.
I have nearly no experiance with animations. Is there something somebody can point me to? All i've found was transitions, but thats not what i need.

(Ill rephrase) On SO, there are quite a few questions to answer this. One of then is this link How do you make images wobble like on the iPhone home screen?

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Highlight UIButton when not selecting the button itself

I have a custom class here that consists of a UIButton inside of a UIView.
The goal of this class is to allow users to have a greater area (being the UIView) to select the button than just the buttons frame itself.
Now when a user taps on the view I want the buttons highlighted image to show... But the problem is, it does not.
I've read many possible solutions to this issue For Example:
Calling: [btnObject sendActionsForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]
This however did not change the buttons highlight.
I also tried just settings the button.highlighted = YES;
But that did not work either.
I have the images for different states properly setup (Normal and Highlighted), I'm sure of that.
I also have the gestureRecognizer working properly as the functionality is great except for the lack of highlight.
Does anybody know if I'm missing any thing special that needs to be done in order to pull off this seemingly very simple task? Surely it's been done many times.
Thank you
You were on the right track. -[UIButton setHighlighted:] is just a flag. What you need to do is call setNeedsDisplay on that button right after you change the highlighted property.
I solved my problem a little while ago and I'm not sure if Kevin Low's answer would've worked too, it very well might have.
But for some reason, a UITapGesture doesn't work well with highlighting buttons as a view transitions (That might be because I didn't call setNeedsDisplay). The gesture that ended up working was the UILongPressGesture with a 0.0 sec for minimum duration.

Dragging an uiview like facebooks menu slide

I know this has been probably asked before but I've seen many approaches and i don't know which is best for me, so plz don't send me a link to another post unless it addresses my problem directly.
I have a controller which has a uiview on the top (like a header) (this header is bigger than it seems because is partially hidden on top). on that view i have a uibutton which now with a touch up inside shows the entire header view and taping again returns it to its starting position (changing frame with animation). I want to also be able to drag the view but only changing position on the y axis(dragging up and down)... i was thinking of adding the dragInside/Outside event to the button but this doesn't give me the position of the finger... and also want to know when the user releases the drag so the view ends animation to any of its two possible states (showing or partially hidden). Is this a "touches began" , "touches moved" , "touches ended" thing? if it is please provide a code example. I also want to do this with another view but this is on the left side... same thing but this one moves on the X axis... any help is appreciated. or maybe it can be made with drag event if i only can save a CGpoint of last touch, maybe that's better, any other suggestions
Look at using a UIPanGestureRecognizer to detect the touch movements. Use the translationInView: of the gesture to set the view y position. The translation is the total movement since the start of the gesture so you don't need to remember and accumulate the offset position yourself.
The main thing to worry about while implementing this is bounding the y position of the view so that no matter how far the user drags the view won't go too high or low on the screen.
Use a UIPanGestureRecognizer, that's a class dedicated to handling such drag/pan gestures.
Everything is described here in Apple's documentation, including examples, so you should find your answer here.
There is also some sample code in Apple Developer Library that shows you how to use Gesture Recognizers if needed.

iOS UISlider not moving when I swipe, even though other UI elements are fine

I've created a simple xib file with three buttons and a UISlider.
When I start the app on my phone I'm able to tap the buttons no problem, but the UISlider is locked and doesn't move..
However if I keep trying to move it with my finger it eventually scrolls left and right fine, but only after about a minute of furious screen swiping..
I thought it might be because it was hidden behind something onscreen (not that there's anything for it to hide behind) so I did 'arrange -> send to front', but this doesn't help.
Does anyone know why it might be doing this?

Designing a circular "selector" control

I'm developing an app that calculates poker odds, and now I'm facing some problems with the card selector.
This is a mockup of what I want.
I've found two ways to accomplish this. The first one is to use an entire UIImageView and detect touches, calculate where the touch has been generated, and set the corresponding value.
The second one is to use a lot of UIButtons, but in this case I get problems with the shape of the buttons.
Of course I can use a regular UIPickerView and so on but I think that the one I've designed is better.
if you have a UIButton with a background image that is shaped irregular. then that is the only point that the button can be pressed.
Change the type to custom and put your slices into buttons.
This has been my experience anyhow.
My buttons have to have a .01 alpha background to increase their pad size and people can push the button.
Hope that helps :)
After googled a little i've found https://github.com/ole/OBShapedButton .
it does anything what i need

Animated UIView's contents not receiving touch events

I've got a UIView which the user drags on and off of the screen (like a drawer).
The UIView has a bunch of buttons, some always visible, others hidden until the user 'opens' the drawer.
For some reason, the UIButtons that are 'off screen' on the initial UIView presentation aren't being passed events when they're later moved onto screen.
While the others receive all the events all the time.
Seems buggy to me, I would have thought the SDK would handle all this itself?
I've got a very simple example which you can take a look at: http://cl.ly/2r1c0k2p361B3B1A461L
Thanks in advance.
After a bit more research, it had to do with the views clipping boundaries.
The buttons were being drawn, but were essentially out of the views frame, so no events were registered.
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