AutoLayout, Constraints and Animation

Question

Let\'s assume that I have this UIView:

with these relativ

Answer 1

You can make a placeholder UIView with the ending constraints you want and swap the original constraints with the placeholder UIView constraints.

That way it keeps the layout constraints in the storyboard and keeps your code from being messy. It also gives you the added effect of seeing the end result of your animation in the preview section of xcode.

If use the cocoapod "SBP" to do this with just a couple lines. Here's a tutorial.