iOS 7.1 Slide To Unlock Text Animation

Question

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Answer 1

The best way to do this is with a multi layer object.

• Top: UILabel with opaque background and clear text

  • Clear text is rendered in drawRect: func through complicated masking process

• Middle: Worker View that is performing a repeating animation moving an image behind the top label

• Bottom: a UIView that you add the middle and top subview to in that order. Can be whatever color you want the text to be

An example can be seen here https://github.com/jhurray/AnimatedLabelExample