Question

I have a horizontal UITableView and it has a subclass of a UITableViewCell. I am trying to have an animation where if someone taps on the UITableViewCell the cell does a backflip animation and resizes into a modal view. How and what is the easiest way to do this?

Answer 1

For this you can actually perform exactly what you want using UIView’s class method:

transitionFromView:toView:duration:options:completion:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/uiview_class/uiview/uiview.html

You could do the following:

• Create a clone of the UITableViewCell that has been pressed
• Overlay it on the table view at exactly the same position as the pressed cell
• Call the method above using the ‘from’ view as the cloned cell view and the ‘to’ view as the new ‘modal’ view (a view that fills the screen).

I recommended that you create a clone otherwise the cell is removed from the tableview:

The starting view for the transition. By default, this view is removed from its superview as part of the transition.

edit: I forgot to mention, the animation that you’re looking for is UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromBottom