iOS 7.1 Slide To Unlock Text Animation

Question

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Answer 1

The most effective way I've found to recreate the glimmering text effect is to use the Shimmer Cocoapod created by Facebook. Below is the example image from the Shimmer GitHub repo, which is located at the following URL: https://github.com/facebook/Shimmer

Shimmer example

There are full instructions to install and use Shimmer on the repo, but the gist is that after installing the Cocoapod you'll add a special subview or layer into which will go the contents you wish to have glimmer/shimmer, then set the effect to start.