ViewAnimator: Simple code for complex UI layout and animation switching

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.

Installation

Manual

Drop the swift files inside of ViewAnimator/Classes into your project.

Usage

ViewAnimator provides a set of UIView extensions to easily add custom animations to your views.

Direction

Direction provides the axis where the animation should take place and it’s movement direction.

let type = AnimationType.from(direction:.top.offset: 30.0)
view.animate(animationType: type)Copy the code

Animatable

UITableView, UICollectionView and UIStackView conform to Animatable protocol. This lets us animate their visible subviews or cells with only one function.

func animateViews(animationType: AnimationType,
                      initialAlpha: CGFloat,
                      finalAlpha: CGFloat,
                      delay: Double.duration: TimeInterval,
                      animationInterval: TimeInterval,
                      completion: CompletionBlock?)Copy the code

All of this parameters have default values except AnimationType. They can be modified globaly with ViewAnimatorConfig static properties.

If you are just trying to see how ViewAnimator can fit in your project and don’t want to spend any time reading at docs or testing the animations just call view.animateRandom() on your UIViewController and you’ll get a set of random animations for your subviews. UITableViews/UICollectionViews and UIStackViews will have their visible views animated individually with the same animation but with a delay between each view.

view.animateRandom(a)Copy the code

Project Details

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!

License

Copyright (c) 2017 Marcos Griselli

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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