iOS, native blur view effects available from iOS9+?

Question

I'm trying to show a view / popup (a dialog), however I need a blur effect in the background and support iOS 9+.

Are they blur operations provided natively in UIKit which will support rotation?

I'm concerned that the blur effect will work off a screenshot and once I've shown my dialog and the screen rotates it won't be possible to add a blur effect to the screenshot image.

Perhaps there are other options.

Answer 1

UIKIt has a UIVisualEffectView to add the beautiful blur effects

• from the object library drag a UIVisualEffectView and drop it on the view that needs make it blur for your case (background)

declare these properties

@IBOutlet var popupView: UIView!
@IBOutlet weak var visualEffectView: UIVisualEffectView!
var blurEffect:UIVisualEffect!

in viewDidLoad put this code

    blurEffect = visualEffectView.effect
    visualEffectView.effect = nil

show a view/popup (a dialog) with blur

func presentPopUp() {
    self.view.addSubview(popupView)
    UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.4) {
        self.visualEffectView.effect = self.blurEffect
       //make tarnsform from  popupView make it show more beauty
    }
}

hide a view/popup (a dialog) and blur

func dismissPopUp () {
    UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.3, animations: {
        self.visualEffectView.effect = nil
        //make tarnsform from  popupView make it hide more beauty
    }) { (success:Bool) in
        //  dismissPopUp remove it from super View
    }
}