Animating a UIImage or UIImageView?

Question

I\'m trying to animate an image\'s height (from height of 0 pixels to 480 pixels) to create the effect of the image being rendered top-down.

With an UIImageView i notice

Answer 1

Just a suggestion, assume you have two images: A and X (the X-ray image):

+-------+               +-------+
|       |               |       |
|       |               |       |
|   A   |               |   X   |
|       |               |       |
|       |               |       |
+-------+               +-------+

Dynamically you can create a one-pixel high image (temp), copy the content from X partially, put it on top of A:

+-------+   +-------+   +-------+
|       |   | temp1 | < |       |
|       |   +-------+   |       |
|   A   |               |   X   |
|       |               |       |
|       |               |       |
+-------+               +-------+

In a loop, dynamically create/resize the temp image, and copy more content from X:

+-------+   +-------+   +-------+
|       |   | temp2 | < |       |
|       |   |       |   |       |
|   A   |   +-------+   |   X   |
|       |               |       |
|       |               |       |
+-------+               +-------+

+-------+   +-------+   +-------+
|       |   | temp3 | < |       |
|       |   |       |   |       |
|   A   |   |       |   |   X   |
|       |   +-------+   |       |
|       |               |       |
+-------+               +-------+
+-------+   +-------+   +-------+
|       |   | temp4 | < |       |
|       |   |       |   |       |
|   A   |   |       |   |   X   |
|       |   |       |   |       |
|       |   +-------+   |       |
+-------+               +-------+

+-------+   +-------+   +-------+
|       |   | tempX | < |       |
|       |   |       |   |       |
|   A   |   |       |   |   X   |
|       |   |       |   |       |
|       |   |       |   |       |
+-------+   +-------+   +-------+