Question

Say I have a hidden view in Xcode for iOS. Now, when I set the view to not hidden (view.hidden=NO), how can I make it so that it now appears, but with animations?

Answer 1

What you probably want is not to set view.hidden, but to set view.alpha to 0 (corresponds to hidden = YES) or 1 (hidden = NO).

You can then use implicit animations to show the view, e.g

[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3 animations:^() {
    view.alpha = 1.0;
}];