UICountingLabel
Adds animated counting support to UILabel.
CocoaPods
UICountingLabel is available on CocoaPods. Add this to your Podfile:
pod 'UICountingLabel'
And then run:
$ pod install
Setup
Simply initialize a UICountingLabel the same way you set up a regular UILabel:
UICountingLabel* myLabel = [[UICountingLabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 100, 40)];
[self.view addSubview:myLabel];
[myLabel release];
You can also add it to your XIB file, just make sure you set the class type to UICountingLabel instead of UILabel and be sure to #import "UICountingLabel.h" in the header file.
Use
Set the format of your label. This will be filled with a single int or float (depending on how you format it) when it updates:
myLabel.format = @"%d";
Optionally, set the mode. The default is UILabelCountingMethodEaseInOut, which will start slow, speed up, and then slow down as it reaches the end. Other options are described below in the Methods section.
myLabel.method = UILabelCountingMethodLinear;
When you want the label to start counting, just call:
[myLabel countFrom:50 to:100];
You can also specify the duration. The default is 2.0 seconds.
[myLabel countFrom:50 to:100 withDuration:5.0f];
Additionally, there is animationDuration property which you can use to override the default animation duration.
myLabel.animationDuration = 1.0;
You can use common convinient methods for counting, such as:
[myLabel countFromCurrentValueTo:100];
[myLabel countFromZeroTo:100];
Behind the scenes, these convinient methods use one base method, which has the following full signature:
[myLabel countFrom:(float)startValue
to:(float)endValue
withDuration:(NSTimeInterval)duration];
You can get current value of your label using -currentValue method (works correctly in the process of animation too):
CGFloat currentValue = [myLabel currentValue];
Formats
When you set the format property, the label will look for the presence of %(.*)d or %(.*)i, and if found, will cast the value to int before formatting the string. Otherwise, it will format it using a float.
If you're using a float value, it's recommended to limit the number of digits with a format string, such as @"%.1f" for one decimal place.
Because it uses the standard stringWithFormat: method, you can also include arbitrary text in your format, such as @"Points: %i".
Modes
There are currently four modes of counting.
UILabelCountingMethodLinear
Counts linearly from the start to the end.
UILabelCountingMethodEaseIn
Ease In starts out slow and speeds up counting as it gets to the end, stopping suddenly at the final value.
UILabelCountingMethodEaseOut
Ease Out starts out fast and slows down as it gets to the destination value.
UILabelCountingMethodEaseInOut
Ease In/Out starts out slow, speeds up towards the middle, and then slows down as it approaches the destination. It is a nice, smooth curve that looks great, and is the default method.