LoadingPlaceholderView

Animated gradient placeholder with zero effort

Mixed UI Components	Table View	Collection View

Features

Plug and play
Supports all UIKit components and it's open to user-defined ones.
Supports landscape mode and runtime screen resize
Highly customizable
Swift 4 and iOS 9.0+

How it works

LoadingPlaceholderView extracts all the subviews that conforms the protocol Coverable from viewToCover and then creates an animated gradient layer combining all the coverablePath provided by each of those subviews.

Setup

Add pod 'LoadingPlaceholderView' to your Podfile or copy the content of the LoadingPlaceholderView folder into your project

How to use

Create an instance of LoadingPlaceholderView

let loadingPlaceholderView = LoadingPlaceholderView()

Usually this would be a property of your view controller.
Show the view with

loadingPlaceholderView.cover(_ viewToCover: UIView, animated: Bool)
Hide the view with

loadingPlaceholderView.uncover(animated: Bool)

UITableView/UICollectionView

By design LoadingPlaceholderView doesn't interfere with DataSource and/orDelegate by injecting mocked data but it leaves the resposability to decide what to show and how to the user; in that way unwanted side effects are limited.

Preload the tableView/collectionView with "mocked" cells. UITableViewCell and UICollectionViewCell already conforms Coverable
Show the view with

loadingPlaceholderView.cover(_ viewToCover: UIView, animated: Bool)
Hide the view and refresh the tableView/collectionView

loadingPlaceholderView.uncover(animated: Bool) tableView/collectionView.reloadData()

Note:

It is possible to set coverableCellsIdentifiers (just for UITableView) - in this way the current tableView state will be ignored and the coverablePath (and therefore the gradient) is generated using the provided cells identifies. In this way it is possible to skip the first step of the previous list because populating the tableView with mocked cells is no more required.

Customization

You can customize the component behavior by setting the followings properties:

fadeAnimationDuration: TimeInterval

The duration of the animation performed by the methods
cover(_ viewToCover: UIView, animated: Bool = true)
uncover(animated: Bool = true)
when animated is true

gradientColor: UIColor

The main color of the gradient. Once it has been set gradientConfiguration.backgroundColor, gradientConfiguration.primaryColor and gradientConfiguration.secondaryColor will be calculated based on this color.

gradientiConfiguration.width: Double

The width of the primary color in the gradient expressed as the percentage of the gradient size.

gradientiConfiguration.animationDuration: TimeInterval

The duration of the animation of the gradient.

gradientiConfiguration.backgroundColor: UIColor

The backgroundColor of the gradient.

gradientiConfiguration.primaryColor: UIColor

The primaryColor of the gradient.

gradientiConfiguration.secondaryColor: UIColor

The secondaryColor of the gradient.

Demo

In this repository you can also find a demo.

Info

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Cheers from Italy!

shenditya/LoadingPlaceholderView