Need Help Syncing Timing of View Loading - iphone

I have a UIView that is pushed from offscreen to onscreen using the following code. The problem is, the keyboard is being loaded first, then the view, it is like they are two separate views being pushed into the screen.
What I want is for the keyboard and view to load together at the same time.
[UIView animateWithDuration:.5
animations:^{
[self.weightView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height)];
}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
[weightTextField becomeFirstResponder];
}];

You should call the becomeFirstRsponder in the "animation:" block, not the "completion:" block, so that the keyboard and the view are animated together, and not one after the other.

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UINavigationController undoes changes to previous UIView

I have a navigation controller with a couple of view controllers in it. In the first view controller (the app's initial one) I perform an animation, which moves two UIImageViews around, and fades in some additional ui elements. Now, when I push the next view controller and then go back to the initial one, the transformations are gone and the image views are exactly where they were when loaded from the storyboard. The additional ui elements, however, are still visible and so is the text I've entered in some UITextFields. So the view controller is not entirely reset to its initial state but somehow the performed animations are undone. Can anybody tell me whether this is regular behavior and - if so - how I can preserve the transformations?
A little more disclosure: I'm simply setting off a regular animation upon hitting a button...
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.4
delay:0.0
options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut
animations:^{
self.firstView.center = firstCenter;
self.secondView.center = secondCenter;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished) {
// Upon complection fade in additional ui elements
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.4
animations:^{
self.firstElement.alpha = 1.0;
self.secondElement.alpha = 1.0;
self.thirdElement.alpha = 1.0;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished) {
[self.activityIndicator stopAnimating];
}];
}];
... and then pushing the next view controller after hitting another button.
[self.navigationController pushViewController:_nextViewController animated:YES];
As far as I can see I'm not doing anything funky here, so any help is appreciated.

UIView TransitionFromView disables scrolling

Hey there StackOverflow! I've finished programming my app, and everything is working fine- so I've decided that since the function part is done, I want to start working on form. However, I have a bit of code that's giving me trouble, and I'm not sure why. My app has two views that I switch between. In viewDidLoad, I have these two lines of code:
[PlannerView setScrollEnabled:YES];
[PlannerView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(320, 735)];
and then later, I switch between the main view and planner view when a button is pressed, like this:
if (isPlannerView) {
// [self setView:MainView];
[UIView transitionFromView:PlannerView
toView:MainView
duration:0.5
options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight
completion:^(BOOL finished){
[self setView:TimerView];
}];
isPlannerView = NO;
} else {
[UIView transitionFromView:MainView
toView:PlannerView
duration:0.5
options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromLeft
completion:^(BOOL finished){
}];
// [self setView:PlannerView];
isPlannerView = YES;
}
Now, when I use hte commented line of code (self setview), it will scroll with no problems. However, when I use UIView transitionFromView, it no longer scrolls. Any idea what is going wrong here?
The documentation for transitionFromView:toView:duration:options:completion: says:
This method modifies the views in their view hierarchy only. It does
not modify your application’s view controllers in any way. For
example, if you use this method to change the root view displayed by a
view controller, it is your responsibility to update the view
controller appropriately to handle the change.
So make sure that viewDidLoad: is actually being called. It also states:
During an animation, user interactions are temporarily disabled for
the views being animated. (Prior to iOS 5, user interactions are
disabled for the entire application.) If you want users to be able to
interact with the views, include the
UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction constant in the options
parameter.
So make sure that user-interaction is enabled on the view after the animation is finished.
completion:^(BOOL finished){
[PlannerView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
}];
Source: UIView Class Reference

removeFromSuperview with animation and views management

I did some digging around about this, but nothing really seems to answer my particular question (not even this: Is it possbile to removeFromSuperview with Animation?).
Basically, my app starts with a welcome screen, where a user clicks on "sign in", then goes to the sign in view, then getting to a tab bar view, which is the actual app.
The way I did it, is that I wrote a custom class - TabBarController, which sets up all the tabs and their respective view controllers. Now, when the user clicks on "sign in" i am calling removeFromSuperview and present the tabbar.
I am trying to find a way to animate the transition from the sign in page to the tab bar. I tried some proposed solutions around here, but none seems to do the job. Here is my code in the signin.m view controller. I am looking to animate out the current view (ideally, not just by fading out, but more cool stuff like flips, etc.).
//when done signing in --> go to the tab bar view
-(IBAction)done:(id)sender {
TabBarController *tabController = [[TabBarController alloc] init];
[UIView beginAnimations:#"removeWithEffect" context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:4.0];
self.parentViewController.view.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,320,480);
self.parentViewController.view.alpha = 1.0f;
[UIView commitAnimations];
[self.parentViewController.view performSelector:#selector(removeFromSuperview) withObject:nil afterDelay:2.5f];
[self presentModalViewController:tabController animated:YES];
}
Appreciate any help!
That can't work that way. presentModalViewController dislpays the view of a viewController over the own view. It won't replace the source viewController (self).
Since you remove self.parentViewController.view from the view hierarchy, it can't present your tabController modally because you have removed self.
Anyway, i would recommend you another way to achieve your view layout:
Create a tabBarViewController and add its view to a rootView (self.window in the app delegate or whatever you are using now). Then add your login-view to the same view. Due the view hierarchy, the login-view will be displayed above the tabBar.view. And the done button should be implemented this way: (i'm using block syntax for animation as it should be)
-(IBAction)done:(id)sender {
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0
animations:^{
self.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 480, 320, 480);
self.view.alpha = 0.0
}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
[self.view removeFromSuperView];
}
];
}
You can animate more things than just the alpha, size or position. Just take a look about animations in the documentation. I guess, you'll be interested in view.transform to commit flip animations. ;)
This is how you have to remove the view after animating it.
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0];
[UIView setAnimationDelay:2.0];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut];
[UIView setAnimationDelegate:myView];
[UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:#selector(removeFromSuperview)];
[UIView commitAnimations];
Hope this helps.
Happy coding.

pushviewcontroller animation without actually calling pushviewcontroller

I would like to animate my view in response to a user action to look like the animation for a pushviewcontroller. That is, I want the view to slide off-screen to the left in response to the user action. However, I don't want to create a new view and push it onto the stack using pushviewcontroller. I want to reuse the same view and reload the data, and I want the reloaded view with the new data to slide in from the right, and it would in the animation for pushviewcontroller. How would you do this?
Thanks for any help!
Do this in your viewController. This will move the whole view of it to the right and then after 2 seconds back. You may want to move only a subview so you have some kind of background.
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.2
animations:^{
self.view.frame = CGRectMake(320, 0, 320, 480);
}];
[self performSelector:#selector(slideBackView) withObject:nil afterDelay:2.0];
}
- (void)slideBackView
{
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.2
animations:^{
self.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480);
}];
}
you can animate your UIView,See the below SO post ..
iPhone UIView Animation Best Practice
Here is more link ..
http://ameyashetti.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/view-animation-tutorial/

UIView Animations stop working after dismiss Modal View

I just upgraded my iPhone 4 from iOS 4.2.1 to 4.3.2, and to XCode 4.0.2, and I am encountering some bizarre issues with uiview animations. When I first launch my app, code like this executes perfectly:
[UIView beginAnimations:#"fadeAlphaIn" context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5f];
viewClue.alpha = 1.0f;
[UIView commitAnimations];
But then, after dismissing a presenting and then dismissing a modal view by the standard method:
[self presentModalViewController:more animated:YES];
and
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
the first animation no longer works. Instead of fading in, for example, the viewClue view simply jumps from alpha = 0 to alpha = 1. Similarly, other animations altering other views' frame property just force the frame to jump from the initial to final value without animation. These animations worked fine before the modal view was presented and dismissed.
I understand that others have experienced animation issues with the upgrade to iOS 4.3.2, but the way the modal view disrupts animation seems very odd. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any ideas as to a solution? I'm thinking of just adding the modal view as a subview and animation it as it hides and appears, but using the standard modal view method would be much preferred.
Thanks for your help,
James
EDIT: Some more code showing how the app's map is animated
-(void) viewMapfunc
{
AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(soundID);
if(mapvisible){
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5
delay:0.1
options:UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction
animations:^{
map.frame = CGRectMake(0, 350, 320, 27);
mapscroll.frame = CGRectMake(0, 27, 320, 0);
}
completion:nil];
mapvisible = NO;
viewMapLabel.text = #"View Map";
}else {
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5
delay:0.1
options:UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction
animations:^{
map.frame = CGRectMake(0, 50, 320, 300);
mapscroll.frame = CGRectMake(0, 27, 320, 300);
}
completion:nil];
mapvisible = YES;
viewMapLabel.text = #"Hide Map";
}
}
Try to check two things:
Do you commit all started animations? I got all kinds of strange effects after not committing one of them.
Do any animations take place in the same time? Especially with the same view.
Whether any animations take place right after changing properties. Something like:
-
view.alpha = 1;
[UIView beginAnimations:…];
view.alpha = 0;
[UIView commitAnimations:…];
In this example, view will not change it's alpha value from 1 to 0. It will change it instantly. To start an animation you have to extract animations block to another method and call it with performSelectorInMainThread:withObject:afterDelay:. Delay can be even 0.
I solved it by restarting my animation in my UIView subclass:
override func willMove(toWindow newWindow: UIWindow?) {
if newWindow != nil {
spinner.startSpinning() // Restart any animation here
}
}
In the end, I just removed all modal views and implemented them in other ways. For some reason, using modal views messed up animations. Makes no sense, but removing them fixed the problem. If anyone can enlighten me as to why this is going on, it might be nice for memory concerns...
I had the same issue. The root of my trouble was that my animation was being triggered by a notification, and I was adding an observer on each viewWillAppear, but forgot to remove in viewDidDisappear (remember that iOS 6 no longer calls viewDidUnload reliably).
Essentially, I was calling my animation function twice in quick succession, which was causing the visible irregularity. Hopefully this helps someone out down the line!
I've managed to solve this same issue in my own application.
I noticed while debugging that my UIImageViews which I was animating had different memory addresses before and after I pushed my modal view controller(s). At no other time did these UIImageViews switch their memory addresses.
I thought this might have been the root of the issue and it seems I was right.
My client's code had been allocating/initializing my View Controller's UIImageViews in
-viewDidAppear instead of in -viewDidLoad. Thus, every time I launched and dismissed a modal view controller my UIImageViews I was animating would get reinitialized.
Check for yourself if your map object's memory address is changing before and after you launch your modals, and if it is be sure to move your initialization logic to a more proper section of your code.
Hope this helps you!
Dexter
I was using UIView animateWithDuration: and I solved it by not using the completion block. This is code from a subclassed UIView. In the view controller's viewWillAppear: I set self.shouldAnimate to YES, and in the view controller's viewWillDisappear: I set self.shouldAnimate to NO.
-(void)continueRotate {
if (self.shouldAnimate) {
[self rotateRadarView:self.radarInner];
}
}
-(void)rotateRadarView:(UIView *)view {
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.6 delay:0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveLinear animations:^{
[UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
[UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:#selector(continueRotate)];
[view setTransform:CGAffineTransformRotate(view.transform, M_PI_2)];
}completion:nil];
}