animation not moving upwards in chaining animation in swift - swift

Question

I want my swift code to follow the gif I created. What is going is after the first animation there is not any change of the position. Like the gif I created it should first move down then move up again. I tried multiplying by the negative -0.15 thinking it would go in the north direction. Right now it is not having a effect.
UIView.animate(withDuration: 1, animations: {
self.block1.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: self.view.frame.height * 0.15, width: self.view.frame.width, height: self.view.frame.height * 0.1)
self.block1.center = self.view.center
}) { done in
/// first animation finished, start second
if done {
UIView.animate(withDuration: 1, animations: {
self.block1.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: self.view.frame.height * (-0.15), width: self.view.frame.width, height: self.view.frame.height * 0.1)
self.block1.center = self.view.center
})
}
}

Answer 1

Start by getting rid of self.block1.center = self.view.center as you're making the centre point of the block the same as the view in both cycles.
self.view.frame.height * (-0.15) is setting an absolute position out side of the view, not sure if that's intentional, but you might want to be aware of it. Instead, if you only wanted to move a given distance, say the height of the view, you should be using a relative position, such as block1.frame.origin.y -= block.frame.size.height (probably a much easier way to say that, but you get the idea)
So I created a really quick Playground, made up some values and got a "sort of" bouncy, returny thing going as an example
import UIKit
import XCPlayground
let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 300.0, height: 600.0))
// XCPShowView("container", view: container) // -> deprecated
let block1 = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: (view.frame.width) / 2, height: 150))
block1.backgroundColor = UIColor.green
block1.center.x = view.center.x
view.addSubview(block1)
UIView.animate(withDuration: 1, animations: {
let y = view.frame.height * 0.15
print(y)
block1.center.y = view.center.y
}) { done in
print("Done = \(done)")
/// first animation finished, start second
if done {
UIView.animate(withDuration: 1, animations: {
block1.frame.origin.y = 0
})
}
}
XCPlaygroundPage.currentPage.liveView = view
Caveat: There's probably a really neat and easy way to do "auto reversal" style animations using CALayer and I'd be keen to see other examples presenting the same concept