The animator from douglashennrich

animator's Introduction

#Animator: Animator is a helper class to ease your mind when working with animations on Titanium.

##Usage: In your app.js (or elsewhere), call:

// Load the animator helper
var Animator = require("Animator");

Now that you have the module initialised you can call one of these animation functions:

scale: increases or decreases the size of the view
rotate: rotates the view
fade: changes the opacity of the view
flip: flips the view (horizontally if nothing is passed)
moveTo: moves the view in the X and Y coordinates
sizeTo: resizing and positioning the view through width, height, bottom, top, left and right
backgroundColor: changes the backgroundColor of the view with fading effect
shake: shake a view like the code dots on the iOS passcode screen

Let's for example scale a window to 80% of its size

// Load the animator helper
new Animator().scale({ view: window, value: 0.8, duration: 500 });

##Helpers inside the helper

Queuing animations can be a pain. That is why you can also find two specials methods called:

sequence: uses an array of animations and queues them one after the other
parallel: uses an array of animations and runs them all at once

Let's do a quick example

// do a bunch of animations one after the other	
new Animator().sequence([
{ 
	type: "scale", 
	view: pink, 
	value: 1.5, 
	duration: 500 }, 
{ 
	type: "rotate", 
	view: pink, 
	value: 57, 
	duration: 500 } ,
{ 
	type: "fade", 
	view: blue, 
	value: 0.8, 
	duration: 500 } ,
{ 
	type: "moveTo", 
	view: pink, 
	value: {x: 0, y: 200 }, 
	duration: 500 }, 
]);