Animation Views

Navigation and Tab Bar controls provide a way to change views. This kind of change looks like one view being completely replaced with another view, or with animation from one view to another view. Sometimes, you may want to both views visible, with one view in transparent mode on the top of another view. This can be done by using UIView animation methods.

Here are some experience when I tried to use technique.

The basic animation method I use is:

[UIView transitionFromView:fromView
                   toView:toView
                 duration:default_animation_duration
                  options:animationTransiationMode
               completion:completion];

I had one issue with this practice with storyboard (iOS 5.0). The view (toView) being on the top of fromView was positioned with an offset from the top.



The above example shows a gap between the navigation bar and the toView (fromView is on the background). As a result, the bottom bar buttons are not visible because it is out of the screen.

This problem can be easily resolved in storyboard. In the storyboard, select the View Controller first. From the right inspector panel, UNCHECK the property: Resize the view from NIB.



With this fix, the result view is displayed as expected.



Reference

• iOS Development Guide: Animations