iOS: How to convert UIViewAnimationCurve to UIViewAnimationOptions?

Question

The UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey has a UIViewAnimationCurve value. How do I convert it to the corresponding UIViewAnimationOptions value for use with the options argument of +[UIView animateWithDuration:delay:options:animations:completion:]?

// UIView.h

typedef enum {
    UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut,         // slow at beginning and end
    UIViewAnimationCurveEaseIn,            // slow at beginning
    UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut,           // slow at end
    UIViewAnimationCurveLinear
} UIViewAnimationCurve;

// ...

enum {
    // ...
    UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut            = 0 << 16, // default
    UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseIn               = 1 << 16,
    UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut              = 2 << 16,
    UIViewAnimationOptionCurveLinear               = 3 << 16,
    // ...
};
typedef NSUInteger UIViewAnimationOptions;

Obviously, I could create a simple category method with a switch statement, like so:

// UIView+AnimationOptionsWithCurve.h

@interface UIView (AnimationOptionsWithCurve)
@end

// UIView+AnimationOptionsWithCurve.m

@implementation UIView (AnimationOptionsWithCurve)

+ (UIViewAnimationOptions)animationOptionsWithCurve:(UIViewAnimationCurve)curve {
    switch (curve) {
        case UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut:
            return UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut;
        case UIViewAnimationCurveEaseIn:
            return UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseIn;
        case UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut:
            return UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut;
        case UIViewAnimationCurveLinear:
            return UIViewAnimationOptionCurveLinear;
    }
}

@end

But, is there an even easier/better way?

Answer 1

The category method you suggest is the “right” way to do it—you don’t necessarily have a guarantee of those constants keeping their value. From looking at how they’re defined, though, it seems you could just do

animationOption = animationCurve << 16;

...possibly with a cast to NSUInteger and then to UIViewAnimationOptions, if the compiler feels like complaining about that.