iPad: Animate UILabels color changing

Question

I have a label which pops up displaying points in my application. I am using the following code to make the label get larger in scale, then smaller. I would also like to ani

Answer 1

The reason that textColor is not animatable is that UILabel uses a regular CALayer instead of a CATextLayer.

To make textColor animatable (as well as text, font, etc.) we can subclass UILabel and make it use a CATextLayer.

This is quite a lot of work, but luckily I already did it :-)

You can find a complete explanation + a drop-in open source replacement for UILabel in this article