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SPPerspective
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AKVideoImageView
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Wobbly
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README
ViewAnimator is a library for building complex iOS UIView animations in an easy way. It provides one line animations for any view included the ones which contain other views like UITableView and UICollectionView with its cells or UIStackView with its arrangedSubviews.
Entire View UITableView UICollectionView
SVG animations inspired by Luke Zhao's project Hero
Complex Layouts
UI created by Messaki, make sure to check out his profile.
Logo and banner created by @cintia_ve
Installation
CocoaPods
ViewAnimator is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:
pod "ViewAnimator"
Manual
Drop the swift files inside of ViewAnimator/Classes into your project.
Carthage
github "marcosgriselli/ViewAnimator"
Usage
ViewAnimator
provides a set of UIView
extensions to easily add custom animations to your views. From version 2.0.0
there are two ways to use this extension.
Self animating views
Views can animate theirselves calling .animate(animations: [Animation])
that's the most basic usage. Here's the full method that contains many default arguments:
func animate(animations: [Animation],
reversed: Bool = false,
initialAlpha: CGFloat = 0.0,
finalAlpha: CGFloat = 1.0,
delay: Double = 0,
duration: TimeInterval = ViewAnimatorConfig.duration,
usingSpringWithDamping dampingRatio: CGFloat = ViewAnimatorConfig.springDampingRatio,
initialSpringVelocity velocity: CGFloat = ViewAnimatorConfig.initialSpringVelocity,
completion: (() -> Void)? = nil)
Animating multiple views
ViewAnimator follows the UIKit animations API style with a static method UIView.animate(views: [UIView], animations: [Animation])
. This makes the library really easy to use and extensible to any kind of view. As the previous example, the method contains a lot of default arguments:
static func animate(views: [UIView],
animations: [Animation],
reversed: Bool = false,
initialAlpha: CGFloat = 0.0,
finalAlpha: CGFloat = 1.0,
delay: Double = 0,
animationInterval: TimeInterval = 0.05,
duration: TimeInterval = ViewAnimatorConfig.duration,
usingSpringWithDamping dampingRatio: CGFloat = ViewAnimatorConfig.springDampingRatio,
initialSpringVelocity velocity: CGFloat = ViewAnimatorConfig.initialSpringVelocity,
completion: (() -> Void)? = nil)
AnimationType
Direction
Direction
provides the axis where the animation should take place and its movement direction.
let animation = AnimationType.from(direction: .top, offset: 30.0)
view.animate(animations: [animation])
Zoom
Zoom in and Zoom out animation support.
let animation = AnimationType.zoom(scale: 0.5)
view.animate(animations: [animation])
Combined Animations
You can combine conformances of Animation
to apply multiple transforms on your animation block.
let fromAnimation = AnimationType.from(direction: .right, offset: 30.0)
let zoomAnimation = AnimationType.zoom(scale: 0.2)
let rotateAnimation = AnimationType.rotate(angle: CGFloat.pi/6)
UIView.animate(views: collectionView.visibleCells,
animations: [zoomAnimation, rotateAnimation],
duration: 0.5)
UIView.animate(views: tableView.visibleCells,
animations: [fromAnimation, zoomAnimation],
delay: 0.5)
Animation
Animation
protocol provides you the posibility of expanding the animations supported by ViewAnimator
with exception of the animateRandom
function.
public protocol Animation {
var initialTransform: CGAffineTransform { get }
}
UITableView/UICollection extensions
ViewAnimator comes with a set of handy extensions to make your animations in UITableView
and UICollectionView
a lot simpler. They both have access to cells in a section to animate easily.
They both expose a method visibleCells(in section: Int)
that returns an array of UITableViewCell
or UICollectionViewCell
.
let cells = tableView.visibleCells(in: 1)
UIView.animate(views: cells, animations: [rotateAnimation, fadeAnimation])
Mentions
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Project Details
Requirements
- Swift 4.0
- Xcode 7.0+
- iOS 8.0+
Contributing
Feel free to collaborate with ideas 💭, issues ⁉️ and/or pull requests 🔃.
If you use ViewAnimator in your app I'd love to hear about it and feature your animation here!
Contributors
Author
Marcos Griselli | @marcosgriselli
License
ViewAnimator is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the ViewAnimator README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.