I am trying to set currentPlaybackTime property of the MPMoviePlayerController in MPMoviePlayerViewController to make it resume playing video (HLS stream) from the time, it was stopped when the app resigned active. Here's my code:
//the functinon that sets playback time
- (void)setCurrentPlayTime:(NSNumber *)time {
if (self.moviePlayer.currentPlaybackTime < [time floatValue] - 10.0) {
[self.moviePlayer setCurrentPlaybackTime:(NSTimeInterval)[time floatValue]];
}
}
//app did become active callback
- (void) applicationDidBecomeActiveNotification:(NSNotification*)notification {
if (!isnan(_curPlayTime) && _curPlayTime > 0.0) {
[self performSelector:#selector(setCurrentPlayTime:) withObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:_curPlayTime] afterDelay:0.1];
}
}
//player load state did change callback
-(void)playerLoadStateDidChange:(NSNotification *)notification {
MPMoviePlayerController *player = notification.object;
MPMovieLoadState loadState = player.loadState;
if (loadState & MPMovieLoadStatePlaythroughOK) {
if (!isnan(_curPlayTime) && _curPlayTime > 0.0) {
[self performSelector:#selector(setCurrentPlayTime:) withObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:_curPlayTime] afterDelay:0.1];
_curPlayTime = 0.0;
}
}
When I just tap Home button and then reopen the app, and also if I get incoming call but decline it, it works. But if I answer an incoming call, after I finish the call, playing starts from the 0.0 ignoring setCurrentPlaybackTime method call. Does anybody know, where's the problem and may be any example how it should be done to work correct?
Not sure if this is the issue but the selector you are searching for is setCurrentPlayTime not setCurrentPlay*back*Time.
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I have an app that has a collectionView inside a scrollView. I am using the following code to be able to zoom in and pan around.
-(void) viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
twoFingerPinchA = [[UIPinchGestureRecognizer alloc]
initWithTarget:self
action:#selector(twoFingerPinch:)]
;
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:(twoFingerPinchA)];
}
-(void)twoFingerPinch:(UIPinchGestureRecognizer *)recognizer{
CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(twoFingerPinchA.scale, twoFingerPinchA.scale);
if (twoFingerPinchA.scale < 1) {
twoFingerPinchA.scale = 1;
}
if (twoFingerPinchA.scale >2) {
twoFingerPinchA.scale = 2;
}
self.scrolling.transform = transform;
}
This works well except when I am zoomed in and remove my fingers. When I put my two fingers back on the screen to zoom out or in again the view returns to not zoomed in. How can I get the view to stay zoomed in when I replace my two fingers on the screen to rezoom.
I have tried capturing the twoFingerPinchA.scale value which I can do. But I don't know how to set the initial value of the twoFingerPinchA.scale to that value as it alway returns to 1.
Any ideas?
So I am now trying to detect when two fingers touch the screen and when the two finger touch stops so I can save and insert the value of the twoFingerPinchA.scale.
However No matter what I put in I can't seem to detect the touches.
I have my controllers regular view, then I have a scroll view in it and then a collectionView inside of it.
I have enabled interaction and multiple touch for all views and tried to detect the touches in all view but don't get a call back. Here is my code.
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
NSLog(#"Event:%#",event);
// I don't even get this call back as a touch beginning on any view.
if ([[event touchesForView:self.view] count] >0) {
NSLog(#"touches");
}
}
So I figured this out.
First I used this code
-(void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated{
NSString *pinchString = #"1.0";
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
[defaults setObject:pinchString forKey:#"pinchValue"];
}
//this was to make sure that the pinchValue key had a value when the app is first installed.
then I put this
switch ([twoFingerPinchA state]) {
case UIGestureRecognizerStatePossible:
{
}
break;
case UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan:
{
NSString *inPinch = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:#"pinchValue"];
float Pinch = [inPinch floatValue];
twoFingerPinchA.scale = Pinch;
}
break;
case UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged:
{
}
break;
case UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded:
{
NSString *pinchString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%f",twoFingerPinchA.scale];
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
[defaults setObject:pinchString forKey:#"pinchValue"];
}
break;
case UIGestureRecognizerStateCancelled:
{
}
break;
case UIGestureRecognizerStateFailed:
{
}
break;
}
in my
-(void)twoFingerPinch:(UIPinchGestureRecognizer *)recognizer{}
This stores the value of the twoFingerPinchA.scale in usersDefaults when the pinch ends
and
sets the twoFingerPinchA.scales to that stored value when it begins again. From there it adjust up and down /in and out according to this value.
Works great
I am working on a project that has the concept of draggable controls, everything is working fine except that NSView seems to employ a fade in/out animation when calling setHidden:.
I have been able to work around the problem by changing the line session.animatesToStartingPositionsOnCancelOrFail = YES; to NO and implementing the image snapback myself with a custom animated NSWindow subclass. it looks great, but I know there must be an easier way.
I have tried:
using NSAnimationContext grouping with duration of 0 around the setHidden: calls
setting the view animations dictionary using various keys (alpha, hidden, isHidden) on the control and superview
overriding animationForKey: for both the control and its superview
I am not using CALayers and have even tried explicitly setting wantsLayer: to NO.
Does anybody know how to either disable this animation, or have a simpler solution then my animated NSWindow?
here is my stripped down altered code with the bare minimum to see what I'm talking about.
#implementation NSControl (DragControl)
- (NSDraggingSession*)beginDraggingSessionWithDraggingCell:(NSActionCell <NSDraggingSource> *)cell event:(NSEvent*) theEvent
{
NSImage* image = [self imageForCell:cell];
NSDraggingItem* di = [[NSDraggingItem alloc] initWithPasteboardWriter:image];
NSRect dragFrame = [self frameForCell:cell];
dragFrame.size = image.size;
[di setDraggingFrame:dragFrame contents:image];
NSArray* items = [NSArray arrayWithObject:di];
[self setHidden:YES];
return [self beginDraggingSessionWithItems:items event:theEvent source:cell];
}
- (NSRect)frameForCell:(NSCell*)cell
{
// override in multi-cell cubclasses!
return self.bounds;
}
- (NSImage*)imageForCell:(NSCell*)cell
{
return [self imageForCell:cell highlighted:[cell isHighlighted]];
}
- (NSImage*)imageForCell:(NSCell*)cell highlighted:(BOOL) highlight
{
// override in multicell cubclasses to just get an image of the dragged cell.
// for any single cell control we can just make sure that cell is the controls cell
if (cell == self.cell || cell == nil) { // nil signifies entire control
// basically a bitmap of the control
// NOTE: the cell is irrelevant when dealing with a single cell control
BOOL isHighlighted = [cell isHighlighted];
[cell setHighlighted:highlight];
NSRect cellFrame = [self frameForCell:cell];
// We COULD just draw the cell, to an NSImage, but button cells draw their content
// in a special way that would complicate that implementation (ex text alignment).
// subclasses that have multiple cells may wish to override this to only draw the cell
NSBitmapImageRep* rep = [self bitmapImageRepForCachingDisplayInRect:cellFrame];
NSImage* image = [[NSImage alloc] initWithSize:rep.size];
[self cacheDisplayInRect:cellFrame toBitmapImageRep:rep];
[image addRepresentation:rep];
// reset the original cell state
[cell setHighlighted:isHighlighted];
return image;
}
// cell doesnt belong to this control!
return nil;
}
#pragma mark NSDraggingDestination
- (void)draggingEnded:(id < NSDraggingInfo >)sender
{
[self setHidden:NO];
}
#end
#implementation NSActionCell (DragCell)
- (void)setControlView:(NSView *)view
{
// this is a bit of a hack, but the easiest way to make the control dragging work.
// force the control to accept image drags.
// the control will forward us the drag destination events via our DragControl category
[view registerForDraggedTypes:[NSImage imagePasteboardTypes]];
[super setControlView:view];
}
- (BOOL)trackMouse:(NSEvent *)theEvent inRect:(NSRect)cellFrame ofView:(NSView *)controlView untilMouseUp:(BOOL)untilMouseUp
{
BOOL result = NO;
NSPoint currentPoint = theEvent.locationInWindow;
BOOL done = NO;
BOOL trackContinously = [self startTrackingAt:currentPoint inView:controlView];
BOOL mouseIsUp = NO;
NSEvent *event = nil;
while (!done)
{
NSPoint lastPoint = currentPoint;
event = [NSApp nextEventMatchingMask:(NSLeftMouseUpMask|NSLeftMouseDraggedMask)
untilDate:[NSDate distantFuture]
inMode:NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode
dequeue:YES];
if (event)
{
currentPoint = event.locationInWindow;
// Send continueTracking.../stopTracking...
if (trackContinously)
{
if (![self continueTracking:lastPoint
at:currentPoint
inView:controlView])
{
done = YES;
[self stopTracking:lastPoint
at:currentPoint
inView:controlView
mouseIsUp:mouseIsUp];
}
if (self.isContinuous)
{
[NSApp sendAction:self.action
to:self.target
from:controlView];
}
}
mouseIsUp = (event.type == NSLeftMouseUp);
done = done || mouseIsUp;
if (untilMouseUp)
{
result = mouseIsUp;
} else {
// Check if the mouse left our cell rect
result = NSPointInRect([controlView
convertPoint:currentPoint
fromView:nil], cellFrame);
if (!result)
done = YES;
}
if (done && result && ![self isContinuous])
[NSApp sendAction:self.action
to:self.target
from:controlView];
else {
done = YES;
result = YES;
// this bit-o-magic executes on either a drag event or immidiately following timer expiration
// this initiates the control drag event using NSDragging protocols
NSControl* cv = (NSControl*)self.controlView;
NSDraggingSession* session = [cv beginDraggingSessionWithDraggingCell:self
event:theEvent];
// Note that you will get an ugly flash effect when the image returns if this is set to yes
// you can work around it by setting NO and faking the release by animating an NSWindowSubclass with the image as the content
// create the window in the drag ended method for NSDragOperationNone
// there is [probably a better and easier way around this behavior by playing with view animation properties.
session.animatesToStartingPositionsOnCancelOrFail = YES;
}
}
}
return result;
}
#pragma mark - NSDraggingSource Methods
- (NSDragOperation)draggingSession:(NSDraggingSession *)session sourceOperationMaskForDraggingContext:(NSDraggingContext)context
{
switch(context) {
case NSDraggingContextOutsideApplication:
return NSDragOperationNone;
break;
case NSDraggingContextWithinApplication:
default:
return NSDragOperationPrivate;
break;
}
}
- (void)draggingSession:(NSDraggingSession *)session endedAtPoint:(NSPoint)screenPoint operation:(NSDragOperation)operation
{
// now tell the control view the drag ended so it can do any cleanup it needs
// this is somewhat hackish
[self.controlView draggingEnded:nil];
}
#end
There must be a layer enabled somewhere in your view hierarchy, otherwise there wouldn't be a fade animation. Here is my way of disabling such animations:
#interface NoAnimationImageView : NSImageView
#end
#implementation NoAnimationImageView
+ (id)defaultAnimationForKey: (NSString *)key
{
return nil;
}
#end
The solution you already tried by setting the view animations dictionary should work. But not for the keys you mention but for the following. Use it somewhere before the animation is triggered the first time. If you have to do it on the window or view or both, I don't know.
NSMutableDictionary *animations = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:[[theViewOrTheWindow animator] animations];
[animations setObject:[NSNull null] forKey: NSAnimationTriggerOrderIn];
[animations setObject:[NSNull null] forKey: NSAnimationTriggerOrderOut];
[[theViewOrTheWindow animator] setAnimations:animations];
Or also just remove the keys if they are there (might not be the case as they are implicit / default):
NSMutableDictionary *animations = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:[[theViewOrTheWindow animator] animations];
[animations removeObjectForKey:NSAnimationTriggerOrderIn];
[animations removeObjectForKey:NSAnimationTriggerOrderOut];
[[theViewOrTheWindow animator] setAnimations:animations];
Ok. I figured out that the animation I'm seeing is not the control, the superview, nor the control's window. It appears that animatesToStartingPositionsOnCancelOrFail causes NSDraggingSession to create a window (observed with QuartzDebug) and put the drag image in it and it is this window that animates back to the origin and fades out before the setHidden: call is executed (i.e. before the drag operation is concluded).
Unfortunately, the window that it creates is not an NSWindow so creating a category on NSWindow doesn't disable the fade animation.
Secondly, there is no public way that I know of to get a handle on the window, so I can't attempt directly manipulating the window instance.
It looks like maybe my workaround is the best way to do this, after all its not far from what AppKit does for you anyway.
If anybody knows how to get a handle on this window, or what class it is I would be interested to know.
I am having an issue with an iPad app I am developing. I have the following code:
CFTimeInterval startTime = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent();
[self showSpinnerWithMessage:#"Loading settings..."]; // Shows a UIActivityIndicator on screen
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(0, 0), ^
{
//Updating items on screen here
[label1 setText:#"Test1"];
[label2 setText:#"Test3"];
//...
CFTimeInterval difference = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent() - startTime;
if (difference < MINIMUM_INDICATOR_SECONDS)
{
[NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:MINIMUM_INDICATOR_SECONDS - difference];
}
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void)
{
[self removeSpinner]; // Removes UIActivityIndicator from screen
});
};
The problem is that sometimes the UI takes a while to update, and in these particular instances the spinner (UIActivityIndicator) goes away before the UI has actually updated. I realize this is because the items on screen do not actually update until the next run loop so my question is, how can make my [self removeSpinner] call wait until the UI has updated?
Try putting the UI-updating code in the block with removeSpinner.
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void)
{
[label1 setText:#"Test1"];
[label2 setText:#"Test3"];
[self removeSpinner]; // Removes UIActivityIndicator from screen
});
Put a [self.view setNeedsDisplay]; just before the [self removeSpinner].
Following problem. I have two AVPlayers, each initialized with a different AVPlayerItem.
Once the AVPlayerItem is successfully loaded, I add the AVPlayerLayer to the view layer. As you can see in the code below.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
self.playerItem = [[AVPlayerItem alloc] initWithURL:[self.video getVideoPath]];
[self.playerItem addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"status" options:0 context:nil];
[self.playerItem addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"playbackBufferEmpty" options:0 context:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(videoEnded)
name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification
object:nil];
self.player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem:playerItem];
self.overlayPlayerItem = [[AVPlayerItem alloc] initWithURL:[self.compareVideo getVideoPath]];
[self.overlayPlayerItem addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"status" options:0 context:nil];
[self.overlayPlayerItem addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"playbackBufferEmpty" options:0 context:nil];
if (self.overlayPlayer==nil) {
self.overlayPlayer = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem:self.overlayPlayerItem];
}
- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context
{
if ([object isKindOfClass:[AVPlayerItem class]])
{
AVPlayerItem *item = (AVPlayerItem *)object;
//playerItem status value changed?
if ([keyPath isEqualToString:#"status"])
{ //yes->check it...
switch(item.status)
{
case AVPlayerItemStatusFailed:
NSLog(#"player item status failed");
break;
case AVPlayerItemStatusReadyToPlay:
{
NSLog(#"player item status is ready to play");
if (item == self.playerItem && !videoLayerAdded) {
videoLayerAdded = YES;
AVPlayerLayer* layer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:player];
layer.frame = self.videoContainer.bounds;
[self.videoContainer.layer insertSublayer:layer atIndex:0];
} else if (item == self.overlayPlayerItem && !overlayLayerAdded){
overlayLayerAdded = YES;
AVPlayerLayer* layer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:overlayPlayer];
layer.frame = self.videoOverlayContainer.bounds;
[self.videoOverlayContainer.layer insertSublayer:layer atIndex:0];
}
break;
}
case AVPlayerItemStatusUnknown:
NSLog(#"player item status is unknown");
break;
}
}
else if ([keyPath isEqualToString:#"playbackBufferEmpty"])
{
if (item.playbackBufferEmpty)
{
NSLog(#"player item playback buffer is empty");
}
}
}
}
When I hit the play button the videos get played. If I hit it again they stop, so far so good.
- (IBAction)playButtonClicked:(id)sender{
//is playing
if(self.player.rate>0.0 || self.overlayPlayer.rate>0.0){
[self.player pause];
[self.overlayPlayer pause];
} else {
[self.player play];
[self.overlayPlayer play];
}
}
I have two UISlider that allow me to go forth and back through each video. I use seekToTime to jump to a certain time in a video.
- (IBAction)sliderChanged:(id)sender{
UISlider *slider = (UISlider *)sender;
//stop any video when using the slider
if(self.player.rate>0.0){
[self.player pause];
}
if(self.overlayPlayer.rate>0.0){
[self.overlayPlayer pause];
}
if (slider.tag == 1) {
double time = (self.playerTimeSlider.value * CMTimeGetSeconds(self.player.currentItem.asset.duration));
[self.player seekToTime:CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(time, NSEC_PER_SEC) toleranceBefore:kCMTimeZero toleranceAfter:kCMTimeZero];
} else if (slider.tag == 2){
double time = (self.overlayTimeSlider.value * CMTimeGetSeconds(self.overlayPlayer.currentItem.asset.duration));
[self.overlayPlayer seekToTime:CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(time, NSEC_PER_SEC) toleranceBefore:kCMTimeZero toleranceAfter:kCMTimeZero];
}
}
Videos can have different length as well. However, if a video ends, I set it back to the start, also with seekToTime.
My problem is that I can initially play both videos. I can pause and resume them without problem. But once I pause and use seekToTime for any video and resume or if the videos are at the end I reset them with seekToTime and hit play again my status observer fires AVPlayerItemStatusFailed for both PlayerItems.
Then the duration of those items becomes 0. I checked though, the PlayerItems are not nil.
I don't get a crash but I just can't play the videos anymore. When I only use one player I can jump through it with seekToTime and also reset it at the end of the video without problem.
I read through the forum and people say you can apparently use up to 4 AVPlayers, so I guess I should be save with 2. I also read about that other apps can use up video render pipelines, but I made sure that I don't have any other apps in the background on my iPad.
Any help as to why this is not working for me or even better, a fix, is highly appreciated.
Update:
I actually logged the error from the AVPlayerItem object now:
error: Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11819 "Cannot Complete Action"
UserInfo=0x19e370 {NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Try again later.,
NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot Complete Action}
The code -11819 stands for AVErrorMediaServicesWereReset. Does that help anyone to help me?
This might be a long shot but take a look at the following page of the documentation:
AV Foundation Programming Guide - Seeking—Repositioning the Playhead
My hint is that by giving a tolerance of zero (before and after) you are probably causing the decoders to work their way out of a key frame calculating the exact requested frame.
This, in conjunction with playing two items at the same time, can cause the exhaustion of resources allocated to the iOS internal Media Services. Thus causing a reset.
I guess it depends on numerous factors being the most important the quality and format of the videos being played.
If you do not require precise time control in the scrubbing (!) try to play with the tolerance. I suggest that you try with values slightly larger than the maximum keyframe interval.
That value (the maximum keyframe interval) is, most likely, movie dependent.
If you have control of the movies and can live with insane movie file sizes try to export them using a max keyframe interval of 1 (!) and give it a spin.
I have an array of images which I want to animate by playing these images one after the other in a sequence. I want to repeat the whole loop several times. I am developing a game for iPad. Suggest to me a method to achieve this functionality in Objective-C with the Cocoa framework.
NSArray *animationArray = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
[UIImage imageNamed:#"images.jpg"],
[UIImage imageNamed:#"images1.jpg"],
[UIImage imageNamed:#"images5.jpg"],
[UIImage imageNamed:#"index3.jpg"],
nil];
UIImageView *animationView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0,320, 460)];
animationView.backgroundColor = [UIColor purpleColor];
animationView.animationImages = animationArray;
animationView.animationDuration = 1.5;
animationView.animationRepeatCount = 0;
[animationView startAnimating];
[self.view addSubview:animationView];
[animationView release];
add your own images in the array.repeat Count 0 means infinite loop.You can give your own number also.
There are at least 3 ways to animate an array of images through a UIImageView. I'm adding 3 links to download sample code for the 3 possibilities.
The first one is the one that everyone knows. The other ones are less known.
- UIImageView.animationImages
Example Link
The problem of this one is that do not have Delegate to tell us in which moment the animation is finished. So, we can have problems if we want to display something after the animation.
In the same way, there is no possibility to kept the last image from the animation in the UIImageView automatically. If we combine both problems we can have a gap at the end of the animation if we want to kept the last frame on screen.
self.imageView.animationImages = self.imagesArray; // the array with the images
self.imageView.animationDuration = kAnimationDuration; // static const with your value
self.imageView.animationRepeatCount = 1;
[self.imageView startAnimating];
- CAKeyframeAnimation
Example Link
This way to animate works through CAAnimation. It have an easy delegate to use and we can know when the animation finish.
This is probably the best way to animate an array of images.
- (void)animateImages
{
CAKeyframeAnimation *keyframeAnimation = [CAKeyframeAnimation animationWithKeyPath:#"contents"];
keyframeAnimation.values = self.imagesArray;
keyframeAnimation.repeatCount = 1.0f;
keyframeAnimation.duration = kAnimationDuration; // static const with your value
keyframeAnimation.delegate = self;
// keyframeAnimation.removedOnCompletion = YES;
keyframeAnimation.removedOnCompletion = NO;
keyframeAnimation.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards;
CALayer *layer = self.animationImageView.layer;
[layer addAnimation:keyframeAnimation
forKey:#"girlAnimation"];
}
Delegate:
- (void)animationDidStop:(CAAnimation *)anim finished:(BOOL)flag
{
if (flag)
{
// your code
}
}
- CADisplayLink
Example Link
A CADisplayLink object is a timer object that allows your application to synchronize its drawing to the refresh rate of the display.
This way to do it is really interesting and opens a lot of possibilities to manipulate what are we showing in screen.
DisplayLink getter:
- (CADisplayLink *)displayLink
{
if (!_displayLink)
{
_displayLink = [CADisplayLink displayLinkWithTarget:self
selector:#selector(linkProgress)];
}
return _displayLink;
}
Methods:
- (void)animateImages
{
self.displayLink.frameInterval = 5;
self.frameNumber = 0;
[self.displayLink addToRunLoop:[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop]
forMode:NSRunLoopCommonModes];
}
- (void)linkProgress
{
if (self.frameNumber > 16)
{
[self.displayLink invalidate];
self.displayLink = nil;
self.animationImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"lastImageName"];
self.imagesArray = nil;
return;
}
self.animationImageView.image = self.imagesArray[self.frameNumber++];
self.frameNumber++;
}
GENERAL PROBLEM:
Even though we have this 3 possibilities, if your animation is with a lot of big images, consider using a video instead. The usage of memory will decrease a lot.
A General problem you will face doing this is in the moment of the allocation of the images.
If you use [UIImage imageNamed:#"imageName"] you will have cahe problems.
From Apple:
This method looks in the system caches for an image object with the specified name and returns that object if it exists. If a matching image object is not already in the cache, this method locates and loads the image data from disk or asset catelog, and then returns the resulting object. You can not assume that this method is thread safe.
So, imageNamed: stores the image in a private Cache.
- The first problem is that you can not take control of the cache size.
- The second problem is that the cache did not get cleaned in time and if you are allocating a lot of images with imageNamed:, your app, probably, will crash.
SOLUTION:
Allocate images directly from Bundle:
NSString *imageName = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"imageName.png"];
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:imageName
// Allocating images with imageWithContentsOfFile makes images to do not cache.
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:path];
Small problem:
Images in Images.xcassets get never allocated. So, move your images outside Images.xcassets to allocate directly from Bundle.
See the animationImages property of UIImageView. It’s hard to say if it fits your needs as you don’t give us details, but it’s a good start.
I have added a swift 3.0 extension for this
extension UIImageView {
func animate(images: [UIImage], index: Int = 0, completionHandler: (() -> Void)?) {
UIView.transition(with: self, duration: 0.5, options: .transitionCrossDissolve, animations: {
self.image = images[index]
}, completion: { value in
let idx = index == images.count-1 ? 0 : index+1
if idx == 0 {
completionHandler!()
} else {
self.animate(images: images, index: idx, completionHandler: completionHandler)
}
})
}
}
Best solution for me use CADisplayLink. UIImageView doesn't have completion block and you can't catch steps of animation. In my task i must changing background of view with image sequencer step by step. So CADisplayLink allows you handling steps and finishing animation. If we talk about usage of memory, i think best solution load images from bundle and delete array after finishing
ImageSequencer.h
typedef void (^Block)(void);
#protocol ImageSequencerDelegate;
#interface QSImageSequencer : UIImageView
#property (nonatomic, weak) id <ImageSequencerDelegate> delegate;
- (void)startAnimatingWithCompletionBlock:(Block)block;
#end
#protocol ImageSequencerDelegate <NSObject>
#optional
- (void)animationDidStart;
- (void)animationDidStop;
- (void)didChangeImage:(UIImage *)image;
#end
ImageSequencer.m
- (instancetype)init {
if (self = [super init]) {
_imagesArray = [NSMutableArray array];
self.image = [self.imagesArray firstObject];
}
return self;
}
#pragma mark - Animation
- (void)startAnimating {
[self startAnimatingWithCompletionBlock:nil];
}
- (void)startAnimatingWithCompletionBlock:(Block)block {
self.frameNumber = 0;
[self setSuccessBlock:block];
self.displayLink.frameInterval = 5;
if (self.delegate && [self.delegate respondsToSelector:#selector(animationDidStart)]) {
[self.delegate animationDidStart];
}
[self.displayLink addToRunLoop:[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop]
forMode:NSRunLoopCommonModes];
}
-(void)stopAnimating {
self.image = [self.imagesArray lastObject];
[self.displayLink invalidate];
[self setDisplayLink:nil];
Block block_ = [self successBlock];
if (block_) {
block_();
}
if (self.delegate && [self.delegate respondsToSelector:#selector(animationDidStop)]) {
[self.delegate animationDidStop];
}
[self.imagesArray removeAllObjects];
}
- (void)animationProgress {
if (self.frameNumber >= self.imagesArray.count) {
[self stopAnimating];
return;
}
if (self.delegate && [self.delegate respondsToSelector:#selector(didChangeImage:)]) {
[self.delegate didChangeImage:self.imagesArray[self.frameNumber]];
}
self.image = self.imagesArray[self.frameNumber];
self.frameNumber++;
}
#pragma mark - Getters / Setters
- (CADisplayLink *)displayLink {
if (!_displayLink){
_displayLink = [CADisplayLink displayLinkWithTarget:self selector:#selector(animationProgress)];
}
return _displayLink;
}
- (NSMutableArray<UIImage *> *)imagesArray {
if (_imagesArray.count == 0) {
// get images from bundle and set to array
}
return _imagesArray;
}
#end
This is a simple and working code for animation./
-(void)move
{
[UIView animateWithDuration:5
delay:0.0
options: UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut
animations:^{
[_imgbox setFrame:CGRectMake(100, 100, _imgbox.frame.size.width, _imgbox.frame.size.height)];
}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
NSLog(#"Done!");
}];
}