Animation for iOS Launching Image

Question

Is it possible to apply animation effect for the iOS launching scene since gif is not accepted?

You can add the exact duplicate of your launch scene as the first image of your scene and animate it from there on. — Nick Groeneveld, Jun 22 '15 at 11:53
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12913444/ios-animated-splash-screen follow this might help. thanks — Nitin, Jun 22 '15 at 12:14

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '15 at 11:56

No. The launch scene is either an image or a LaunchScreen.xib. Both are static.

You can however present a gif similar to the launch image in your actual application which will animate if the application has finished loading.

If you use a launch image, create a UIImageView on top of all the other content in the initial viewController. Then you animate that image view. Same goes for the LaunchScreen.xib, rebuild the LaunchScreen.xib setup as the initial view controller and then build some custom animation upon that.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '15 at 12:16

Launch images are static, you configure them with xcode and you can't change them. But in a splash screen you can do whatever you like, it's just a viewController where you show an animation, a video, or any other thing. You show the splash screen after the launch image and before your "landing page". Then, in a splash screen you can create an animation frame by frame, or load a .mp4 video in a MPMoviePlayerController . thanks

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 16 '16 at 07:44

I have one possible solution for you:

Set the splash screen image as first frame on your gif animation
On your appDelegate create method for displaying video, for example. NOTE: add splash screen image to window frame until video is prepared to play. so declare two properties

@property (nonatomic, strong) MPMoviePlayerController *playerCtrl;

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIImageView *previewImage;

    - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {

    [self setupMovie];
    }

    -(void)setupMovie
    {
        NSString *moviePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"video_name" ofType:@"type_of_video"];
        NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath];

        self.playerCtrl =  [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];
        self.playerCtrl.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
        self.playerCtrl.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
        self.playerCtrl.view.frame = self.window.frame;

        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                                 selector:@selector(moviePlayBackDidFinish:)
                                                     name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:nil];

        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self  selector:@selector(moviePlayerPlaybackStateDidChange:)  name:MPMediaPlaybackIsPreparedToPlayDidChangeNotification  object:nil];

        [self.window addSubview:self.playerCtrl.view];
        [self.playerCtrl prepareToPlay];

        self.previewImage = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"SplashScreen"]];
        self.previewImage.frame = self.window.frame;
        self.previewImage.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill;
        [self.window addSubview:self.previewImage];


    }

    - (void)moviePlayBackDidFinish:(MPMoviePlayerController *)player
    {
        [self stopPlayingVideo];
    }

    - (void)moviePlayerPlaybackStateDidChange:(NSNotification*)notification
    {
        if (self.playerCtrl.isPreparedToPlay) {
            [self.previewImage removeFromSuperview];
            [self.playerCtrl play];
        }
    }

    - (void)stopPlayingVideo
    {
        @weakify(self)
        [UIView animateWithDuration:2.3 animations:^(void) {
            @strongify(self)
            [self.playerCtrl.view setAlpha:0.0];
        } completion:^(BOOL finished) {
            @strongify(self)
            [self.playerCtrl.view removeFromSuperview];

        }];

    }

the second solution, if you want to make all animation in code:

Set the splash screen image as first frame on your gif animation 2.Create view controller with all needed animation and present it modally from your first viewcontroller in navigation hierarchy (if you do not want modal controller init your navigation controller with this vc as root) - this could be helpful when you use tabbar as root controller
Show all your animation
Simply dissmis controller after all stub was done

Animation for iOS Launching Image

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