Question

I have made many tries to have the same effect of switch than the one you can see when calling a phone number : the front view disapear with a zoom effect, while the other one appears also with a zoom effect.

I can’t achieve doing that effect, it’s always a so-so. There seems to have a scale effect, with an action on opacity, but…

Do you know how this can be done to reflect that effect (not a so-so, I have tons of those) ?

Answer 1

 // Make this interesting.

 [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
 [UIView setAnimationDuration:2.0];
 [UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionNone forView:self.view cache:YES];
 [UIView setAnimationDelegate:self]; 
 [UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:@selector(startupAnimationDone:finished:context:)];
 self.view.alpha = 0.0;
 self.view.frame = CGRectMake(self.view.center.x,self.view.center.y , 0, 0);
 [UIView commitAnimations];
}

I hope this is a framework for a better animation. It’s not guaranteed to work, but it’s the best I could think of for the first part of the transition.

This will change the frame of your view controller’s view so that it “sucks” itself into the center of the screen, which is a natural black color. Now that I think about it, a CGAffineTransform would have been much easier…

EDIT (For pedantry’s sake): Starting with iOS 4, you can now use the newer, and much more syntactically clean, animation blocks and a nice transform:

[UIView animateWithDuration:0.25 delay:0.0 options:0 animations:^{
     //animate the toolbars in from the top and bottom
     [myTopView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, self.view.frame.size.height - 44, self.view.frame.size.width, 44)];
     [myBottomView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, 44)];
     //fade to black...
     self.view.alpha = 0.0;
     //and suck inwards.
     self.view.frame = CGRectMake(self.view.center.x,self.view.center.y , 0, 0);
}
completion:^{
    //do something to end nicely, or start another animation block.
}];