Animating UIView frame size change with autoresizing subviews

Question

I have a UIView which contains two subviews. I would like to change the superview's frame size with an animation and have the subviews' sizes change in accordance with their autoresize masks.

[UIView beginAnimations:@"Resize" context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0];
CGRect frame = self.myView.frame;
frame.size.height += 30.0;
self.myView.frame = frame;
[UIView commitAnimations];

The view self.myView is resized over 1 second as expected, but the subviews are resizing immediately. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I might make the subviews animate their resizing as well?

From my googling around, I think it might have something to with the contentMode property. Unfortunately, I'm not really clear as to what that property does. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

It would have been hard for someone else to give you the correct answer w/o seeing your code though I would have asked you what you are doing after [UIView commitAnimations]. Nevertheless, glad you figured it out. I suggest you use the block animations. They make this type of mistake much easier to avoid by using a completion block. Example:

[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0
                 animations:^{
                     CGRect frame = self.myView.frame;
                     frame.size.height += 30.0;
                     self.myView.frame = frame;
                 }
                 completion:^(BOOL finished){
                     // whatever you need to do when animations are complete
                 }];