Animate UILabel text between two numbers?

Question

I\'m new to iPhone and Mac programming (developed for Windows before), and I\'ve got a question:

How do I animate the text property of an UILabel<

Answer 1

In Swift 2.0, using the UIView.transitionWithView() method:

UIView.transitionWithView(self.payPeriodSummaryLabel,
        duration: 0.2,
        options: [.CurveEaseInOut, .TransitionCrossDissolve],
        animations: { () -> Void in
            self.label.text = "your text value"
        }, completion: nil)

Answer 2

another simple alternative

extension UILabel {    
    func countAnimation(upto: Double) {
        let from: Double = text?.replace(string: ",", replacement: ".").components(separatedBy: CharacterSet.init(charactersIn: "-0123456789.").inverted).first.flatMap { Double($0) } ?? 0.0
        let steps: Int = 20
        let duration = 0.350
        let rate = duration / Double(steps)
        let diff = upto - from
        for i in 0...steps {
            DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + rate * Double(i)) {
                self.text = "\(from + diff * (Double(i) / Double(steps)))"
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

It works well!

Objective-C

[UIView transitionWithView:self.label 
                  duration:.5f 
                   options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut | 
                           UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionCrossDissolve 
                animations:^{

    self.label.text = rand() % 2 ? @"111!" : @"42";

} completion:nil];

Swift 2

UIView.transitionWithView(label, duration: 0.25, options: [.CurveEaseInOut, .TransitionCrossDissolve], animations: {
    self.label.text = (arc4random() % 2 == 0) ? "111" : "222"
}, completion: nil)

Swift 3, 4, 5

UIView.transition(with: label, duration: 0.25, options: [.curveEaseInOut, .transitionCrossDissolve], animations: {
    self.label.text = (arc4random() % 2 == 0) ? "111" : "222"
}, completion: nil)

Answer 4

I found a great engine for tweening values with a variety of different timing functions called PRTween. Install the classes and create some code along these lines:

- (IBAction)tweenValue
{
    [[PRTween sharedInstance] removeTweenOperation:activeTweenOperation];
    PRTweenPeriod *period = [PRTweenPeriod periodWithStartValue:0.0 endValue:100.0 duration:1.0];
    activeTweenOperation = [[PRTween sharedInstance] addTweenPeriod:period
                                                             target:self
                                                           selector:@selector(update:)
                                                     timingFunction:&PRTweenTimingFunctionCircOut];
}

- (void)update:(PRTweenPeriod*)period
{
    self.animatingView.center = CGPointMake(period.tweenedValue + 100.0, 200.0);
    self.valueLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%.2f", period.tweenedValue];
}

Works a treat for me. :)

Answer 5

You can use the automatic transitions. It's working perfectly well :

// Add transition (must be called after myLabel has been displayed)
 CATransition *animation = [CATransition animation];
animation.duration = 1.0;
animation.type = kCATransitionFade;
animation.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut];
[myLabel.layer addAnimation:animation forKey:@"changeTextTransition"];

// Change the text
myLabel.text = newText;

This code works if myLabel is already displayed. If not myLabel.layer will be nil and the animation will not be added to the object.

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in Swift 4 that would be:

let animation: CATransition = CATransition()
animation.duration = 1.0
animation.type = kCATransitionFade
animation.timingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction(name: kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut)
myLabel.layer.add(animation, forKey: "changeTextTransition")

Answer 6

If you kind of want it to count up and down with the new number pushing the previous number away (like a ticker or something):

let animation = CATransition()
animation.removedOnCompletion = true
animation.duration = 0.2
animation.type = kCATransitionPush
animation.subtype = newValue > value ? kCATransitionFromTop : kCATransitionFromBottom
animation.timingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction(name: kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseOut)
valueLabel.layer.addAnimation(animation, forKey:"changeTextTransition")