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

based on @cc's answer i modified his extension to blur a view

extension UIView {

    func blur() {
        //   Blur out the current view
        let blurView = UIVisualEffectView(frame: self.bounds)
        self.addSubview(blurView)
        UIView.animate(withDuration:0.25) {
            blurView.effect = UIBlurEffect(style: .dark)
        }
    }

    func unblur() {
        for childView in subviews {
            guard let effectView = childView as? UIVisualEffectView else { continue }
            UIView.animate(withDuration: 2.5, animations: {
                effectView.effect = nil
            }) {
                didFinish in
                effectView.removeFromSuperview()
            }
        }
    }
}