Repeat the delay in a UIView animation loop?

Question

I'm trying to do a customized animation on view opacity like this:

1. Delay for 5 seconds; (The view will keep opaque for 5 seconds)
2. Animate from opacity value 1 to 0;
3. Delay for 5 seconds; (The view will keep transparent for 5 seconds)
4. Animate from opacity value 0 to 1;

I want to repeat step 1 to 4 indefinitely: 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4,.....

Here is what I tried:

[UIView animateWithDuration:1
                      delay:5
                    options:UIViewAnimationOptionAutoreverse|UIViewAnimationOptionRepeat|UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut
                 animations:^{
                     self.imageView.layer.opacity = 0;
                 }
                 completion:nil
 ];

But the delay only appeared once at the beginning, what I ended up with is:

1, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4,.....

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I solved in this way, with use of NSTimer

[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval: 2
                                     target: self
                                   selector:@selector(moveImage: )
                                   userInfo: nil repeats:YES];


}



-(void) moveImage: (NSTimer*)timer {
    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:2];