ScalingGradientAnimatedButton

Overview

ScalingGradientAnimatedButton is a subclass of UIView, written is Swift, that encloses a gradient and a scale animation in a view.

Example

To run the example project, clone the repo, and run pod install from the Example directory first.

Requirements

• iOS 8
• Swift 4.0

Installation

ScalingGradientAnimatedButton is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'ScalingGradientAnimatedButton'

Usage

Four functions of initialization are included to provide enough customization.

import ScalingGradientAnimatedButton

/// then inside the viewDidLoad or any view controller with a reference to the view

// init the button with two different colors for the selected and the unselected state, their transition can be animated or not
button.initButton(opacity: 1.0, color: UIColor.black, selectedColor: UIColor.cyan, buttonScale: 0.6, animationDuration: 0.5, shadowOpacity: 0.4, shadowRadius: 1.0, shouldHaveSelectedColorAnimation: true)

// init the button with just one color, only the scale will be animated
button.initButton(opacity: 1.0, color: UIColor.cyan, buttonScale: 1.3, animationDuration: 0.5, shadowOpacity: 0.6, shadowRadius: 1.0)

Set the position of the button to anchor its animation

button.buttonPosition = .left

To intercept events arriving on the button assign this closure, it pass the tag of the view as a parameter. You can set the tag from ther storyboard

button.calculatorButtonEvent = { tag in
print("Tap or long press received")
}

Author

Antonio Ruffolo

License

ScalingGradientAnimatedButton is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.