iOS - View Transitions

Use of View Transitions

View Transitions are effective ways of adding one view on another view with a proper transition animation effect.

Update ViewController.xib as follows −

Create actions for the buttons that are created in xib.

Update ViewController.h

Declare two view instances in ViewController class. The ViewController.h file will look as follows after creating the actions −

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface ViewController : UIViewController {
   UIView *view1;
   UIView *view2;
}

-(IBAction)flipFromLeft:(id)sender;
-(IBAction)flipFromRight:(id)sender;
-(IBAction)flipFromTop:(id)sender;
-(IBAction)flipFromBottom:(id)sender;
-(IBAction)curlUp:(id)sender;
-(IBAction)curlDown:(id)sender;
-(IBAction)dissolve:(id)sender;
-(IBAction)noTransition:(id)sender;

@end

Update ViewController.m

We will add a custom method setUpView to initialize the views. We also create another method doTransitionWithType: that creates transition from view1 to view2 or vice versa. Then we will implement the action methods we created before that calls the doTransitionWithType: method with the transition type. The updated ViewController.m is follows −

#import "ViewController.h"

@interface ViewController ()

@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad {
   [super viewDidLoad];
   [self setUpView];
   // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}

-(void)setUpView {
   view1 = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
   view1.backgroundColor = [UIColor lightTextColor];
   view2 = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
   view2.backgroundColor = [UIColor orangeColor];
   [self.view addSubview:view1];
   [self.view sendSubviewToBack:view1];
}

-(void)doTransitionWithType:(UIViewAnimationTransition)animationTransitionType {
   if ([[self.view subviews] containsObject:view2 ]) {
      [UIView transitionFromView:view2
      toView:view1
      duration:2
      options:animationTransitionType
      completion:^(BOOL finished) {
         [view2 removeFromSuperview];
      }];
      [self.view addSubview:view1];
      [self.view sendSubviewToBack:view1];
   } else {
      [UIView transitionFromView:view1
      toView:view2
      duration:2
      options:animationTransitionType
      completion:^(BOOL finished) {
         [view1 removeFromSuperview];
      }];
      [self.view addSubview:view2];
      [self.view sendSubviewToBack:view2];
   }
}

-(IBAction)flipFromLeft:(id)sender {
   [self doTransitionWithType:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromLeft];
}

-(IBAction)flipFromRight:(id)sender {
   [self doTransitionWithType:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight];
}

-(IBAction)flipFromTop:(id)sender {
   [self doTransitionWithType:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromTop];
}

-(IBAction)flipFromBottom:(id)sender {
   [self doTransitionWithType:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromBottom];
}

-(IBAction)curlUp:(id)sender {
   [self doTransitionWithType:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionCurlUp];
}

-(IBAction)curlDown:(id)sender {
   [self doTransitionWithType:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionCurlDown];
}

-(IBAction)dissolve:(id)sender {
   [self doTransitionWithType:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionCrossDissolve];
}

-(IBAction)noTransition:(id)sender{
   [self doTransitionWithType:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionNone];
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
   [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
   // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
@end

Output

When we run the application, we'll get the following output −

You can select different buttons to see how the transition works. On selecting a curl up, the transition will be as follows −

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