I want to let a UIImageView
flash several times.
Currently I don't know how to do that.
Actual code:
-(void)arrowsAnimate{
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 animations:^{
arrow1.alpha = 1.0;
arrow2.alpha = 1.0;
arrow3.alpha = 1.0;
NSLog(@"alpha 1");
} completion:^(BOOL finished){
[self arrowsAnimate2];
}];
}
-(void)arrowsAnimate2{
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 animations:^{
arrow1.alpha = 0.0;
arrow2.alpha = 0.0;
arrow3.alpha = 0.0;
NSLog(@"alpha 0");
} completion:^(BOOL finished){;}];
}
later on I call it like this:
for (int i = 0;i < 10; i++){
[self arrowsAnimate]; }
This gives me 10x alpha 1, and then 10x alpha 0. In the middle we see only one animation.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
There is a simpler way to achieve a flashing animation using only 1 animation block:
aview.alpha = 1.0f;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5f
delay:0.0f
options:UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse
animations:^ {
[UIView setAnimationRepeatCount:10.0f/2.0f];
aview.alpha = 0.0f;
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
[aview removeFromSuperview];
}];
The trick is to use [UIView setAnimationRepeatCount:NTIMES/2]; *_inside_* your animation block
.
No need for extra functions or extra loops.
Use
+ (void)animateWithDuration:(NSTimeInterval)duration delay:(NSTimeInterval)delay options:(UIViewAnimationOptions)options animations:(void (^)(void))animations completion:(void (^)(BOOL finished))completion
and pass the UIViewAnimationOptionRepeat
and probably UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse
in your options. You shouldn't need to provide a completion block and only perform the first animation.
Edit: here is some sample code for an image that fades in and out indefinitely.
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0
delay:0.0
options:(UIViewAnimationOptionRepeat | UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse)
animations:^{
self.myImageView.alpha = 1.0;
}
completion:NULL];
Edit 2: I see you actually need to flash it 10 times only. I wasn't able to do that with blocks actually. When the completion block executed, the animation seemed to complete instantly the remaining 9 times. I was however able to do this with just the old-style animations quite easily.
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0];
[UIView setAnimationRepeatCount:10.0];
[UIView setAnimationRepeatAutoreverses:YES];
self.myImageView.alpha = 1.0;
[UIView commitAnimations];
Edit 3: I found a way to do this with blocks.
- (void)animate
{
if (self.animationCount < 10)
{
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0
animations:^{
self.myImageView.alpha = 1.0;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
[self animateBack];
}];
}
}
- (void)animateBack
{
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0
animations:^{
self.myImageView.alpha = 0.0;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
self.animationCount++;
[self animate];
}];
}
Above blinking may not work when your app go background and foreground at time of blinking.
Instead of these you can take a transparent image and your actual image and animate your ImageView
UIImageView *imageview=[UIImageView new];
imageview.animationDuration=1;
imageview.animationImages = your array of images;
[imageview startAnimating];
You need to wait for an animation to complete before launching a new one. You could chain your completion block in animate2 to go back to animate, and stop based on a counter property, implementing your loop in the animate/completion blocks instead of a separate loop.