How to fade a UIVisualEffectView and/or UIBlurEffect in and out?

Question

I want to fade a UIVisualEffectsView with a UIBlurEffect in and out:

var blurEffectView = UIVisualEffectView()
blurEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: UI         


        

Answer 1

Here is the solution that I ended up which works on both iOS10 and earlier versions using Swift 3

extension UIVisualEffectView {

    func fadeInEffect(_ style:UIBlurEffectStyle = .light, withDuration duration: TimeInterval = 1.0) {
        if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
            let animator = UIViewPropertyAnimator(duration: duration, curve: .easeIn) {
                self.effect = UIBlurEffect(style: style)
            }

            animator.startAnimation()
        }else {
            // Fallback on earlier versions
            UIView.animate(withDuration: duration) {
                self.effect = UIBlurEffect(style: style)
            }
        }
    }

    func fadeOutEffect(withDuration duration: TimeInterval = 1.0) {
        if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
            let animator = UIViewPropertyAnimator(duration: duration, curve: .linear) {
                self.effect = nil
            }

            animator.startAnimation()
            animator.fractionComplete = 1
        }else {
            // Fallback on earlier versions
            UIView.animate(withDuration: duration) {
                self.effect = nil
            }
        }
    }

}

You can also check this gist to find an example usage.