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UILabel-AutomaticWriting

Overview

UILabel category with automatic writing animation.

Inspired by Google Trends - Hot Searches.

UILabel-AutomaticWriting Screenshot

Check out also the Android version created by my colleague hrules6872/TrendTextView.

Installation

UILabel-AutomaticWriting is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod "UILabel-AutomaticWriting"

Or you can add the following files to your project:

UILabel+AutomaticWriting.m
UILabel+AutomaticWriting.h

To run the example project, clone the repo, and run pod install from the Example directory first.

Or you can install it with Carthage:

github "alexruperez/UILabel-AutomaticWriting"

Example

[yourLabel setText:@"CHECK THIS!" automaticWritingAnimationWithBlinkingMode:UILabelAWBlinkingModeWhenFinishShowing];

You can customize the duration, the blinking character and even the blinking animation with:

UILabelAWBlinkingModeNone
UILabelAWBlinkingModeUntilFinish
UILabelAWBlinkingModeUntilFinishKeeping
UILabelAWBlinkingModeWhenFinish
UILabelAWBlinkingModeWhenFinishShowing
UILabelAWBlinkingModeAlways

You can fix blinking line break, setting edge insets with:

yourLabel.edgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.2f);

Etc.

Contributions are very welcome.
Attribution is appreciated (let's spread the word!), but not mandatory.

Use it? Love/hate it?

Tweet the author @alexruperez, and check out alexruperez's blog: http://alexruperez.com

License

UILabel-AutomaticWriting is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.