UIViewController+KNSemiModal is an effort to make a replica of semi-modal view with pushed-back stacked animation found in the beautiful Park Guides by National Geographic app. You can see this original semi-modal view below.
This library (ARC) is designed as a Category to UIViewController so you don't have to subclass and you can simply drop in any project and it will just work!
Original screenshot
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Replica (view demo video to see the beautiful animation)
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Download a demo clip here (1.3MB, .mov)
- Works with bare UIViewController
- Works with UIViewController contained inside UINavigationController
- Works with UIViewController contained inside UINavigationController, contained inside UITabbarController
- Auto handling of modal frame size
- Auto handling of touch area for dismissal
- Resizable after presenting so that keyboard related interactions are possible
- Easy to understand and very small code base, only 2 files
- Trivial to implement as subclass
- Landscape support (not during presentation)
- Only use basic CAAnimation
- Minimum iOS 5.0 (if you need 4.x support, use older commits before Jan 2013)
- animation duration
- parent alpha
- optional push-back
- shadow opacity
- disabling the cancel action
- transition style: slide up, fade
Easily extend this to anything you would want to make configurable. Feel free to submit pull requests.
- Copy 4 files in
Sourcefolder to your project - Add
QuartzCore.frameworkto your project #import "UIViewController+KNSemiModal.h"in your ViewController- Call
[self presentSemiModalView:myView] - Call
[self dismissSemiModalView]either from parent/presenting or child/presented controller
Read my blog post for detailed usage.
- no iPad support, it will be quite different though.
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