When a view controller's view is first shown I want to run an animation in which all elements in the view controller slide from outside the bottom of the screen to their natural positions. To achieve this, I do subview.frame.origin.y += self.view.frame.size.height
in viewDidLayoutSubviews
. I also tried viewWillAppear
, but it doesn't work at all. Then I animate them up to their natural positions with subview.frame.origin.y -= self.view.frame.size.height
in viewDidAppear
.
The problem is that viewDidLayoutSubviews
is called several times throughout the view controller's lifespan. As such, when things like showing the keyboard happen all my content gets replaced outside the view again.
Is there a better method for doing this? Do I need to add some sort of flag to check whether the animation has already run?
EDIT: here's the code. Here I'm calling prepareAppearance
in viewDidLayoutSubviews
, which works, but viewDidLayoutSubviews
is called multiple times throughout the controller's life span.
- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews
{
[super viewDidLayoutSubviews];
[self prepareAppearance];
}
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
[self animateAppearance];
}
- (NSArray *)animatableViews
{
return @[self.createAccountButton, self.facebookButton, self.linkedInButton, self.loginButton];
}
- (void)prepareAppearance
{
NSArray * views = [self animatableViews];
NSUInteger count = [views count];
for (NSUInteger it=0 ; it < count ; ++it) {
UIView * view = [views objectAtIndex:it];
CGRect frame = view.frame;
// Move the views outside the screen, to the bottom
frame.origin.y += self.view.frame.size.height;
[view setFrame:frame];
}
}
- (void)animateAppearance
{
NSArray * views = [self animatableViews];
NSUInteger count = [views count];
for (NSUInteger it=0 ; it < count ; ++it) {
__weak UIView * weakView = [views objectAtIndex:it];
CGRect referenceFrame = self.view.frame;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.4f
delay:0.05f * it
options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut
animations:^{
CGRect frame = weakView.frame;
frame.origin.y -= referenceFrame.size.height;
[weakView setFrame:frame];
}
completion:^(BOOL finished) {
}];
}
}