Episode #210

Cool Text Effects - Part 2

12 minutes
Published on February 25, 2016

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Continuing on from last time, we take our glyph layers and apply Core Animation, providing for some interesting effects including animating the stroke of each glyph path and applying a typing effect with transforms.

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Stroke Effect

class StrokeEffectTextView : TextEffectView {
    override func processGlyphLayer(layer: CAShapeLayer, atIndex index: Int) {
        layer.strokeStart = 0
        layer.strokeEnd = 0

        layer.strokeColor = UIColor.blackColor().CGColor
        layer.fillColor = UIColor.whiteColor().CGColor
        layer.lineWidth = 1
        layer.lineJoin = kCALineJoinBevel

        let anim = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "strokeEnd")
        anim.fromValue = 0.0
        anim.toValue = 1.0
        anim.duration = 0.5
        anim.beginTime = CACurrentMediaTime() + Double(index) * anim.duration
        anim.removedOnCompletion = false
        anim.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards

        layer.addAnimation(anim, forKey: "strokeAnim")
    }
}

Typing Effect

class TypingTextEffectView : TextEffectView {

    var letterDuration: NSTimeInterval = 0.25
    var letterDelay: NSTimeInterval = 0.1

    override func processGlyphLayer(layer: CAShapeLayer, atIndex index: Int) {
        layer.opacity = 0
        layer.fillColor = UIColor.darkGrayColor().CGColor
        layer.lineWidth = 0

        let opacityAnim = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "opacity")
        opacityAnim.fromValue = 0
        opacityAnim.toValue = 1
        opacityAnim.duration = letterDuration

        let rotateAnim = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "transform.rotation")
        rotateAnim.fromValue = -M_PI / 4.0
        rotateAnim.toValue = 0
        rotateAnim.duration = letterDuration / 2.0

        let scaleAnim = CAKeyframeAnimation(keyPath: "transform.scale")
        scaleAnim.values = [1.4, 0.9, 1.0]
        scaleAnim.keyTimes = [0, 0.75, 1.0]
        scaleAnim.duration = letterDuration

        let group = CAAnimationGroup()
        group.animations = [opacityAnim, rotateAnim, scaleAnim]
        group.duration = letterDuration
        group.beginTime = CACurrentMediaTime() + Double(index) * letterDelay

        group.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards
        group.removedOnCompletion = false

        layer.addAnimation(group, forKey: "animationGroup")
    }
}