So, straight to the problem:
I've created a custom UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate that I use to animate a view from one view controller, to full-screen in another view controller. Im doing this by creating UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning-objects that animate the presented view's frame. And it works great! Except when I try to adjust the additionalSafeAreaInsets of the view controller owning the view during dismissal...
It looks like this property is not accounted for when I'm trying to animate the dismissal of the view controller and its view. It works fine during presentation.
The gif below shows how it looks. The red box is the safe area (plus some padding) of the presented view - which I'm trying to compensate for during animation, using the additionalSafeAreaInsets property of the view controller owning the view.

As the gif shows, the safe area is properly adjusted during presentation but not during dismissal.
So, what I want is: use additionalSafeAreaInsets to diminish the effect of the safe area during animation, by setting additionalSafeAreaInsets to the "inverted" values of the safe area. So that the effective safe area starts at 0 and "animates" to the expected value during presentation, and starts at expected value and "animates" to 0 during dismissal. (I'm quoting "animates", since its actually the view's frame that is animated. But UIKit/Auto Layout use these properties when calculating the frames)
Any thoughts on how to battle this issue is great welcome!
The code for the custom UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate is provided below.
//
// FullScreenTransitionManager.swift
//
import Foundation
import UIKit
// MARK: FullScreenPresentationController
final class FullScreenPresentationController: UIPresentationController {
private let backgroundView: UIView = {
let view = UIView()
view.backgroundColor = .systemBackground
view.alpha = 0
return view
}()
private lazy var tapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(onTap))
@objc private func onTap(_ gesture: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
presentedViewController.dismiss(animated: true)
}
}
// MARK: UIPresentationController
extension FullScreenPresentationController {
override func presentationTransitionWillBegin() {
guard let containerView = containerView else { return }
containerView.addGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer)
containerView.addSubview(backgroundView)
backgroundView.frame = containerView.frame
guard let transitionCoordinator = presentingViewController.transitionCoordinator else { return }
transitionCoordinator.animate(alongsideTransition: { context in
self.backgroundView.alpha = 1
})
}
override func presentationTransitionDidEnd(_ completed: Bool) {
if !completed {
backgroundView.removeFromSuperview()
containerView?.removeGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer)
}
}
override func dismissalTransitionWillBegin() {
guard let transitionCoordinator = presentingViewController.transitionCoordinator else { return }
transitionCoordinator.animate(alongsideTransition: { context in
self.backgroundView.alpha = 0
})
}
override func dismissalTransitionDidEnd(_ completed: Bool) {
if completed {
backgroundView.removeFromSuperview()
containerView?.removeGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer)
}
}
override func viewWillTransition(to size: CGSize, with coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {
guard
let containerView = containerView,
let presentedView = presentedView
else { return }
coordinator.animate(alongsideTransition: { context in
self.backgroundView.frame = containerView.frame
presentedView.frame = self.frameOfPresentedViewInContainerView
})
}
}
// MARK: FullScreenTransitionManager
final class FullScreenTransitionManager: NSObject, UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate {
private weak var anchorView: UIView?
init(anchorView: UIView) {
self.anchorView = anchorView
}
func presentationController(forPresented presented: UIViewController,
presenting: UIViewController?,
source: UIViewController) -> UIPresentationController? {
FullScreenPresentationController(presentedViewController: presented, presenting: presenting)
}
func animationController(forPresented presented: UIViewController,
presenting: UIViewController,
source: UIViewController) -> UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning? {
let anchorFrame = anchorView?.safeAreaLayoutGuide.layoutFrame ?? CGRect(origin: presented.view.center, size: .zero)
return FullScreenAnimationController(animationType: .present,
anchorFrame: anchorFrame)
}
func animationController(forDismissed dismissed: UIViewController) -> UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning? {
let anchorFrame = anchorView?.safeAreaLayoutGuide.layoutFrame ?? CGRect(origin: dismissed.view.center, size: .zero)
return FullScreenAnimationController(animationType: .dismiss,
anchorFrame: anchorFrame)
}
}
// MARK: UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning
final class FullScreenAnimationController: NSObject, UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning {
enum AnimationType {
case present
case dismiss
}
private let animationType: AnimationType
private let anchorFrame: CGRect
private let animationDuration: TimeInterval
private var propertyAnimator: UIViewPropertyAnimator?
init(animationType: AnimationType, anchorFrame: CGRect, animationDuration: TimeInterval = 0.3) {
self.animationType = animationType
self.anchorFrame = anchorFrame
self.animationDuration = animationDuration
}
func transitionDuration(using transitionContext: UIViewControllerContextTransitioning?) -> TimeInterval {
animationDuration
}
func animateTransition(using transitionContext: UIViewControllerContextTransitioning) {
switch animationType {
case .present:
guard
let toViewController = transitionContext.viewController(forKey: .to)
else {
return transitionContext.completeTransition(false)
}
transitionContext.containerView.addSubview(toViewController.view)
propertyAnimator = presentAnimator(with: transitionContext, animating: toViewController)
case .dismiss:
guard
let fromViewController = transitionContext.viewController(forKey: .from)
else {
return transitionContext.completeTransition(false)
}
propertyAnimator = dismissAnimator(with: transitionContext, animating: fromViewController)
}
}
private func presentAnimator(with transitionContext: UIViewControllerContextTransitioning,
animating viewController: UIViewController) -> UIViewPropertyAnimator {
let finalFrame = transitionContext.finalFrame(for: viewController)
let safeAreaInsets = transitionContext.containerView.safeAreaInsets
let safeAreaCompensation = UIEdgeInsets(top: -safeAreaInsets.top,
left: -safeAreaInsets.left,
bottom: -safeAreaInsets.bottom,
right: -safeAreaInsets.right)
viewController.additionalSafeAreaInsets = safeAreaCompensation
viewController.view.frame = anchorFrame
viewController.view.setNeedsLayout()
viewController.view.layoutIfNeeded()
return UIViewPropertyAnimator.runningPropertyAnimator(withDuration: transitionDuration(using: transitionContext), delay: 0, options: [.curveEaseInOut, .layoutSubviews], animations: {
viewController.additionalSafeAreaInsets = .zero
viewController.view.frame = finalFrame
viewController.view.setNeedsLayout()
viewController.view.layoutIfNeeded()
}, completion: { _ in
transitionContext.completeTransition(!transitionContext.transitionWasCancelled)
})
}
private func dismissAnimator(with transitionContext: UIViewControllerContextTransitioning,
animating viewController: UIViewController) -> UIViewPropertyAnimator {
let finalFrame = anchorFrame
let safeAreaInsets = transitionContext.containerView.safeAreaInsets
let safeAreaCompensation = UIEdgeInsets(top: -safeAreaInsets.top,
left: -safeAreaInsets.left,
bottom: -safeAreaInsets.bottom,
right: -safeAreaInsets.right)
viewController.view.setNeedsLayout()
viewController.view.layoutIfNeeded()
return UIViewPropertyAnimator.runningPropertyAnimator(withDuration: transitionDuration(using: transitionContext), delay: 0, options: [.curveEaseInOut, .layoutSubviews], animations: {
viewController.additionalSafeAreaInsets = safeAreaCompensation
viewController.view.frame = finalFrame
viewController.view.setNeedsLayout()
viewController.view.layoutIfNeeded()
}, completion: { _ in
transitionContext.completeTransition(!transitionContext.transitionWasCancelled)
})
}
}