The library doesn't use any private APIs - apps using it should be fine for release on the App Store.
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UIView.animateWithDuration:animations: is really easy to use and you're so familiar with its syntax that you often want it to do just a bit more for you automatically. But it doesn't and you need to import Bloated.framework by Beginner Ninja Coder in order to make a bit more advanced animations than what animateWithDuration:animations: allows you to.
EasyAnimation extends what UIKit offers in terms of animations and makes your life much easier because you can do much more without learning some perky new syntax.
Easy Animation 1.0+ is written in Swift 2.0. If you are looking for a Swift 1.2 version check Easy Animation 0.7.
EasyAnimation allows you to animate your layers straight from animateWithDuration:animations:. No more CABasicAnimation code for you. Just adjust the properties of your layers from within the animations block and EasyAnimation will take care of the rest:
| CoreAnimation (before) |
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let anim = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "position.x")
anim.fromValue = 100.0
anim.toValue = 200.0
anim.duration = 2.0
view.layer.addAnimation(anim, forKey: nil) |
| EasyAnimation (after) |
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UIView.animateWithDuration(2.0, animations: {
self.view.layer.position.x = 200.0
}) |
(OK, this example actually works fine also without EasyAnimation but I still keep it here for illustrative purpose)
Or if you need to specify delay, animation options and/or animation curve:
| CoreAnimation (before) |
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let anim = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "position.x")
anim.fromValue = 100.0
anim.toValue = 200.0
anim.duration = 2.0
anim.fillMode = kCAFillModeBackwards
anim.beginTime = CACurrentMediaTime() + 2.0
anim.timingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction(name:
kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseOut)
anim.repeatCount = Float.infinity
anim.autoreverses = true
view.layer.addAnimation(anim, forKey: nil) |
| EasyAnimation (after) |
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UIView.animateWithDuration(2.0, delay: 2.0,
options: .Repeat | .Autoreverse | .CurveEaseOut,
animations: {
self.view.layer.position.x += 200.0
// let's add more animations
// to make it more interesting!
self.view.layer.cornerRadius = 20.0
self.view.layer.borderWidth = 5.0
}, completion: nil) |
And if you want to execute a piece of code after the animation is completed - good luck setting up your animation delegate and writing the delegate methods.
With EasyAnimation you just put your code as the completion parameter value and EasyAnimation executes it for you when your animation completes.
One thing I really missed since iOS9 when using CoreAnimation and CABasicAnimation was that there was no easy way to create spring animations. Luckily a handy library called RBBAnimation provides an excellent implementation of spring animations for layers - I translated the code to Swift and included RBBSpringAnimation into EasyAnimation.
Easy Animation takes care to use the new in iOS9 spring animation class CASpringAnimation when your app runs on iOS9 or higher and falls back to RBBSpringAnimation when your app runs on iOS8.
Here's how the code to create a spring animation for the layer position, transform and corner radius looks like:
| EasyAnimation |
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UIView.animateWithDuration(2.0, delay: 0.0,
usingSpringWithDamping: 0.25,
initialSpringVelocity: 0.0,
options: nil,
animations: {
self.view.layer.position.x += 200.0
self.view.layer.cornerRadius = 50.0
self.view.layer.transform = CATransform3DMakeScale(1.2, 1.2, 1.0)
}, completion: nil) |
Sam Davies collaborated on the spring animations code. Thanks a ton - I couldn't have figured this one on my own!
animateWithDuration:animations: is really handy but chaining one animation after another is a major pain (especially if we are talking about more than 2 animations).
EasyAnimation allows you to use a method to just chain two or more animations together. Call animateAndChainWithDuration:delay:options:animations:completion: and then chain to it more animations. Use animateWithDuration:animations or any other method to create chained animations.
| EasyAnimation |
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UIView.animateAndChainWithDuration(1.0, delay: 0.0,
options: nil, animations: {
self.view.center.y += 100
}, completion: nil).animateWithDuration(1.0, animations: {
self.view.center.x += 100
}).animateWithDuration(1.0, animations: {
self.view.center.y -= 100
}).animateWithDuration(1.0, animations: {
self.view.center.x -= 100
}) |
Yes - that works, give it a try in your project :]
This code will animate the view along a rectangular path - first downwards, then to the right, then up, then to the initial point where the animation started.
What a perfect oportunity to repeat the animation and make the animation run continuosly! Add options parameter to the last animateWithDuration... in the chain and turn on the .Repeat option.
This will make the whole chain (e.g. the 4 animations) repeat continuosly.
If you want to pause between any two animations in the chain - just use the delay parameter and it will all just work.
Note: animateAndChainWithDuration does not create a serial queue to which you could add animations at any time. You schedule your animations once with one call like the example above and it runs on its own, you can't add or remove animations to and from the sequence.
If you have a repeating (or a normal) chain animation on screen you can cancel it at any time. Just grab hold of the animation object and call cancelAnimationChain on it any time you want.
let chain = UIView.animateAndChainWithDuration(1.0, delay: 0.0,
options: nil, animations: {
self.square.center.y += 100
}, completion: nil).animateWithDuration(1.0, animations: {
[... the rest of the animations in the chain]chain.cancelAnimationChain()If you want to do some cleanup after the animation chain is cancelled provide a block of code to the cancelAnimationChain method:
chain.cancelAnimationChain({
self.myView.center = initialPosition
//etc. etc.
})The animation will not stop immediately but once it completes the current step of the chain it will stop and cancel all scheduled animations in this chain.
- Cocoapods: Add to your project's Podfile:
pod 'EasyAnimation'
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Carthage: I'm being told the repo supports now Carthage integration.
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Source code: To install with the source code - clone this repo or download the source code as a zip file. Include all files within the
EasyAnimationfolder into your project.
Author: Marin Todorov
More about Marin:
 iOS Animations by Tutorials, Author |
 iOS Animations by Emails Newsletter, Author |
Includes parts of RBBAnimation by Robert Böhnke. The code is translated from Objective-C to Swift by Marin Todorov.
Collaborator on the spring animation integration: Sam Davies.
EasyAnimation is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.
RBBAnimation license: https://github.com/robb/RBBAnimation/blob/master/LICENSE
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CALayer.animateWithDuration:animations:.. for the people who want to use different methods for view and layer animations .Autoreversefor chain animations (if possible)- add support for keyframe animation along the path via a custom property
- 1.0.2 - Fixes opengl view crashes for everyone
- 1.0.1 - Bug fixes
- 1.0 - Swift 2.0 and iOS9
- 0.7 - round of bug fixes and a number of improvements
- 0.6 - first beta version