how to animate launch image once app has finished launching

Question

I was wondering how I can manipulate the launch image of an iPhone app? I have put launchImage.png into my plist file (under Launch image (iPhone)) and when the app starts I would like to animate this launch image out of the view, like so:

launchImage.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(-CGRectGetWidth(launchImage.frame), 0);

But how do I access an image which I've defined in my plist?

Or will I simply load another instance of the image and then animate it out of the way? This appears a little cumbersome, especially as the app has already loaded the launch image.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You'll have to load another instance. You can't access the launch image from your app. I usually just make a UIImage that matches the launch image and in my viewDidAppear method I animate it away with a performSelector:withDelay: of a second or 2.