Pulsing Animation

Question

I want to build a pulsing animation on a simple UIImageView. The ImageView will grow a little bit bigger, then go back to its original size.

I used the following code:

- (void) doCoolAnimation {
    [UIView beginAnimations:@"glowingAnimation" context:nil];
    [UIView setAnimationRepeatAutoreverses:YES];
    [UIView setAnimationRepeatCount:INT_MAX];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.25];
    [UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES];
    imageView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.15, 1.15);
    [UIView commitAnimations];
}

This works fine on iOS3 but works only partially on iOS4.

I have a UITabBarController with 2 views in it. In the first one is the imageView with the animation, and the animation starts as soon as the view is loaded. But after I switch to the second view (using TabBar) and back, the animation is not running anymore on iOS4. (But on iOS3 I can switch between these 2 views and the animation still works fine.)

I also tried with a timer that calls doCoolAnimation every second, but that does not help to start the animation again.

Can someone explain why after view switching the animation is gone? Is there a workaround that can make it work on iOS4?

Answer 1

Use this simple method :-

CABasicAnimation *pulseAnimation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"transform.scale"];
pulseAnimation.duration = .5;
pulseAnimation.toValue = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.1];
pulseAnimation.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut];
pulseAnimation.autoreverses = YES;
pulseAnimation.repeatCount = FLT_MAX;
[ButtonName.layer addAnimation:pulseAnimation forKey:nil];