Is there a good tutorial about the new block-based animations with MonoTouch?

Question

Is there a good tutorial about the new block-based animations with MonoTouch?

All I know is that instead of the usual method:

UIView.BeginAnimations("ImageMove");

//code to make changes to the view (move controls, swap views, etc.)

UIView.CommitAnimations();

...the new block-based animation method, available from iOS 4.0, uses:

UIView.Animate(0.2, () => { /* code to animate */ });

or:

UIView.Animate(0.2, delegate() { /* code to animate */ });

But a more extensive tutorial would be useful.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For monotouch's block-based animation, the method is:

Animate(double, double, UIViewAnimationOptions, MonoTouch.Foundation.NSAction, MonoTouch.Foundation.NSAction)
//Animate( animateWithDuration:delay:options:animations:completion )

You can refer it HERE.

Code sample like this:

UIView.Animate(0.2, () => { /* code to animate */ });

or

UIView.Animate(0.2, delegate() { /* code to animate */ });

And HERE is a enumeration list for UIViewAnimationOptions.

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I use the method below to do block-based animation for cocoa-touch, paste the code here maybe someone else need:

[UIView animateWithDuration:delay:options:animations:completion:]

Detail description is:

[UIView animateWithDuration:<#(NSTimeInterval)#>
                      delay:<#(NSTimeInterval)#>
                    options:<#(UIViewAnimationOptions)#>
                 animations:<#^(void)animations#>
                 completion:<#^(BOOL finished)completion#>];

You can do animation like:

[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3f
                      delay:0.0f
                    options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut
                 animations:^{
                     // Do your animtion here;
                     [yourViewController.view setAlpha:0.0];
                     // ...
                 }
                 completion:^{
                     if (finished) {
                         // Do sth that after the animation
                     }
                 }];