nicklockwood

Hacking UIView animation blocks for fun and profit

In this article, I'm going to explore a way that we can create views that implement custom Core Animation property animations in a natural way.

As we know, layers in iOS come in two flavours: Backing layers and hosted layers. The only difference between them is that the view acts as the layer delegate for its backing layer, but not for any hosted sublayers.

In order to implement the UIView transactional animation blocks, UIView disables all animations by default and then re-enables them individually as required. It does this using the actionForLayer:forKey: method.

Somewhat strangely, UIView doesn't enable animations for every property that CALayer does by default. A notable example is the layer.contents property, which is animatable by default for a hosted layer, but cannot be animated using a UIView animation block.

steipete

#ifndef NS_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER
#if __has_attribute(objc_designated_initializer)
#define NS_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER __attribute((objc_designated_initializer))
#else
#define NS_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER
#endif
#endif

gruber

The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http,
https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to
match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502

License: https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause

# Single-line version:

(?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com|net|org|edu|gov|mil|aero|asia|biz|cat|coop|info|int|jobs|mobi|museum|name|post|pro|tel|travel|xxx|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|dd|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|me|mg|mh|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nc|ne|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|ps

kyleve

/**
 Provides the ability to verify key paths at compile time.
 
 If "keyPath" does not exist, a compile-time error will be generated.
 
 Example:
    // Verifies "isFinished" exists on "operation".
    NSString *key = SQKeyPath(operation, isFinished);
 
    // Verifies "isFinished" exists on self.

chendo

import lldb
import re
import shlex

# This script allows Xcode to selectively ignore Obj-C exceptions
# based on any selector on the NSException instance

def getRegister(target):
    if target.triple.startswith('x86_64'):
        return "rdi"

steipete

// Taken from the commercial iOS PDF framework http://pspdfkit.com.
// Copyright (c) 2014 Peter Steinberger, PSPDFKit GmbH. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
//
// You should only use this in debug builds. It doesn't use private API, but I wouldn't ship it.

// PLEASE DUPE rdar://27192338 (https://openradar.appspot.com/27192338) if you would like to see this in UIKit.

#import <objc/runtime.h>
#import <objc/message.h>

ttscoff

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# encoding: utf-8
#
# Updated 2017-10-25:
# - Defaults to large size (512)
# - If ImageMagick is installed:
#     - rounds the corners (copped from @bradjasper, https://github.com/bradjasper/Download-iTunes-Icon/blob/master/itunesicon.rb)
#     - replace original with rounded version, converting to png if necessary
# 
# Retrieve an iOS app icon at the highest available resolution

mattt

Generate the list yourself:

$ cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS*.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers
$ grep UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR ./*     | \
  sed 's/NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(.*)//g'     | \
  sed 's/NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(.*)//g'    | \
  sed 's/API_AVAILABLE(.*)//g'        | \
  sed 's/API_UNAVAILABLE(.*)//g'      | \
 sed 's/UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR//g' | \

jashkenas

# MAC manipulators
alias random_mac='sudo ifconfig en0 ether `openssl rand -hex 6 | sed "s/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//"`'
alias restore_mac='sudo ifconfig en0 ether YOUR_ORIGINAL_MAC_ADDRESS_GOES_HERE'

radianttap

+ (void)pulseView:(UIView *)view completion:(void (^)(void))block {

	// if you use auto layout, view-based transform go haywire, as they trigger layoutSubviews
	// consequence is that you have no idea where the view will end up on the screen once animation completes
	// see this discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12943107/how-do-i-adjust-the-anchor-point-of-a-calayer-when-auto-layout-is-being-used

	// thus (per solution 4 from link above), rewriting with CAKeyframeAnimation

	CAKeyframeAnimation *ka = [CAKeyframeAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"transform"];
	ka.duration = .49;