LTMorphingLabel

A morphing UILabel subclass written in Swift. The .Scale effect mimicked Apple's QuickType animation of iOS 8 in WWDC 2014. New morphing effects are available as Swift extensions.

enum LTMorphingEffect: Int, Printable

.Scale - default

.Evaporate

.Fall

.Pixelate

.Sparkle

.Sparkle is built on top of QuartzCore.CAEmitterLayer. There's also a SpriteKit powered version here.

.Burn

.Anvil

Requirements

1. Xcode 7.1
2. iOS 8.0+

Installation

Carthage

1. Add this line to your Cartfile: github "lexrus/LTMorphingLabel"
2. Run carthage update to fetch and build the LTMorphingLabel.framework
3. Drag LTMorphingLabel.framework into your iOS 8 project

CocoaPods

1. Install the latest release of CocoaPods: gem install cocoapods
2. Add this line to your Podfile: pod 'LTMorphingLabel', '~> 0.0.9'
3. Install the pod: pod install

Usage

1. Change the class of a label from UILabel to LTMorphingLabel;
2. Programmatically set a new String to its text property.

Unit tests

Open the project with Xcode then press command + u.

Alternative

Even though this lib was used in a few products on App Store, it’s still an experimental project. Frankly, there’re some nice competitors out there guarantee both compatibility and stability. And the most outstanding one is ZCAnimatedLabel. I’d like to recommend it for production use.

License

This code is distributed under the terms and conditions of the MIT license.