How to animate a UIView with constraints in Swift?

Question

In my contrived example, I have the following single view:

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Answer 1

Try this:

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    // red view
    @IBOutlet weak var myView: UIView!
    //  vertical align contraint
    @IBOutlet weak var verticalConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        verticalConstraint.constant = (myView.bounds.height + self.view.bounds.height)/2
    }

    override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(animated)
        self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
        UIView.animateWithDuration(0.5) {
            self.verticalConstraint.constant = 0
            self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
        }
    }

}

Be careful about firstItem and secondItem order in the constraint. The above code assumes Superview is the firstItem:

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Alternative way is to define two constraints:

• Center Y Alignment constraint (Superview.CenterY == View.CenterY) priority = 750
• Vertical Space Constraint (SuperView.Top == View.Bottom) priority = 500

And adjust the priority to determine which contraint should be adopted.

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    //  vertical align contraint
    @IBOutlet weak var centerYConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        centerYConstraint.priority = 250
    }

    override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(animated)
        self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
        UIView.animateWithDuration(0.5) {
            self.centerYConstraint.priority = 750
            self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
        }
    }

}