UIView Infinite 360 degree rotation animation?

Question

I'm trying to rotate a UIImageView 360 degrees, and have looked at several tutorials online. I could get none of them working, without the UIView either stopping, or jumping to a new position.

• How can I achieve this?

The latest thing I've tried is:

[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0
                      delay:0.0
                    options:0
                 animations:^{
                     imageToMove.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI);
                 } 
                 completion:^(BOOL finished){
                     NSLog(@"Done!");
                 }];

But if I use 2*pi, it doesn't move at all (since it's the same position). If I try to do just pi (180 degrees), it works, but if I call the method again, it rotates backwards.

EDIT:

[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0
                      delay:0.0
                    options:0
                 animations:^{
                     [UIView setAnimationRepeatCount:HUGE_VALF];
                     [UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES];
                     imageToMove.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI);
                 } 
                 completion:^(BOOL finished){
                     NSLog(@"Done!");
                 }];

doesn't work either. It goes to 180 degrees, pauses for a split second, then resets back to 0 degrees before it starts again.

Answer 1

Create the animation

- (CABasicAnimation *)spinAnimationWithDuration:(CGFloat)duration clockwise:(BOOL)clockwise repeat:(BOOL)repeats
{
    CABasicAnimation *anim = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"transform.rotation.z"];
    anim.toValue = clockwise ? @(M_PI * 2.0) : @(M_PI * -2.0);
    anim.duration = duration;
    anim.cumulative = YES;
    anim.repeatCount = repeats ? CGFLOAT_MAX : 0;
    return anim;
}

Add it to a view like this

CABasicAnimation *animation = [self spinAnimationWithDuration:1.0 clockwise:YES repeat:YES];
[self.spinningView.layer addAnimation:animation forKey:@"rotationAnimation"];

How is this answer different? You will have way cleaner code if most of your functions returns objects instead of just manipulating some objects here and there.

Answer 2

I has developed a shiny animation framework which can save you tone of time! Using it this animation can be created very easily:

private var endlessRotater: EndlessAnimator!
override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) 
{
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)
    let rotationAnimation = AdditiveRotateAnimator(M_PI).to(targetView).duration(2.0).baseAnimation(.CurveLinear)
    endlessRotater = EndlessAnimator(rotationAnimation)
    endlessRotater.animate()
}

to stop this animation simply set nil to endlessRotater.

If you are interested, please take a look: https://github.com/hip4yes/Animatics

Answer 3

This is how I rotate 360 in right direction.

[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0f delay:0.0f options:UIViewAnimationOptionRepeat|UIViewAnimationOptionCurveLinear
                     animations:^{
                         [imageIndView setTransform:CGAffineTransformRotate([imageIndView transform], M_PI-0.00001f)];
                     } completion:nil];

Answer 4

@ram's answer was really helpful. Here's a Swift version of the answer.

private func rotateImageView() {

    UIView.animateWithDuration(1, delay: 0, options: UIViewAnimationOptions.CurveLinear, animations: { () -> Void in
        self.imageView.transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(self.imageView.transform, CGFloat(M_PI_2))
        }) { (finished) -> Void in
            if finished {
                self.rotateImageView()
            }
    }
}

Answer 5

Kudos to Richard J. Ross III for the idea, but I found that his code wasn't quite what I needed. The default for options, I believe, is to give you UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut, which doesn't look right in a continuous animation. Also, I added a check so that I could stop my animation at an even quarter turn if I needed (not infinite, but of indefinite duration), and made the acceleration ramp up during the first 90 degrees, and decelerate during the last 90 degrees (after a stop has been requested):

// an ivar for your class:
BOOL animating;

- (void)spinWithOptions:(UIViewAnimationOptions)options {
   // this spin completes 360 degrees every 2 seconds
   [UIView animateWithDuration:0.5
                         delay:0
                       options:options
                    animations:^{
                       self.imageToMove.transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(imageToMove.transform, M_PI / 2);
                    }
                    completion:^(BOOL finished) {
                       if (finished) {
                          if (animating) {
                             // if flag still set, keep spinning with constant speed
                             [self spinWithOptions: UIViewAnimationOptionCurveLinear];
                          } else if (options != UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut) {
                             // one last spin, with deceleration
                             [self spinWithOptions: UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut];
                          }
                       }
                    }];
}

- (void)startSpin {
   if (!animating) {
      animating = YES;
      [self spinWithOptions: UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseIn];
   }
}

- (void)stopSpin {
    // set the flag to stop spinning after one last 90 degree increment
    animating = NO;
}

Update

I added the ability to handle requests to start spinning again (startSpin), while the previous spin is winding down (completing). Sample project here on Github.

Answer 6

A Swift3 version:

extension UIView {

    func startRotate() {
        let rotation : CABasicAnimation = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "transform.rotation.z")
        rotation.fromValue = 0
        rotation.toValue = NSNumber(value: M_PI * 2)
        rotation.duration = 2
        rotation.isCumulative = true
        rotation.repeatCount = FLT_MAX
        self.layer.add(rotation, forKey: "rotationAnimation")
    }

    func stopRotate() {
        self.layer.removeAnimation(forKey: "rotationAnimation")
    }
}

And remember to call startRotate in viewWillAppear not in viewDidLoad.