LTMorphingLabel

A morphing UILabel subclass written in Swift. The .Scale effect is originally introduced by Apple in WWDC 2014. New morphing effects are available as Swift extensions.

enum LTMorphingEffect: Int, Printable

.Scale - default

.Evaporate

.Fall

.Pixelate

.Sparkle

.Sparkle is built on top of QuartzCore.CAEmitterLayer. There's also a SpriteKit powered version here.

.Burn

.Anvil

Requirements

1. Xcode 6.0 beta 3
2. iOS 7.0

TODOs & Known issues

• Improve diff performance
• Text kerning
• Align to pixel
• Text shadow
• Multiline
• How to fade in/out Emoji?
• .FallDownAndFade is buggy
• Docs

Usage

1. Copy LTMorphingLabel folder to your iOS 8 project;
2. Change the class of a label from UILabel to LTMorphingLabel;
3. Programatically set a new String to its text property.

Unit tests

Open the project with Xcode 6 then press command + u.

Contacts

Follow Lex Tang (@lexrus on Twitter)

License

This code is distributed under the terms and conditions of the MIT license.