iOS Best way to animate this

[sgtebob]

Hi all,

I'm new to the forum as well as Objective C.

Here's a question regarding animation:

Let's say that I have a simple menu consisting of images, when I click one of the images in the menu I'd like something to animate and when that animation is complete I set the next view.

Here's quick mock up of what I mean:
The regular menu item, unclicked

The item after the animation is complete

What would be the easiest way to animate the flowery-thing behind the text, the effect that I'm looking for is just some sort of maskin from left to right.

Do I use the UIImageView and make the animation there, frame by frame, do I use a prerendered movie and how do I make it call a method when the animation is complete?

Thanks!

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sgt. ebob

 

[jotade11]

I'm very new to Xcode and programming in general, but from what I understand, would this work best by utilizing OpenGL?