CRToast

CRToast is a library that allows you to easily create notifications that appear on the status bar. CRToast was originally based on CWStatusBarNotification but the direction I found helpful wasn't something CWStatusBarNotification wanted to embrace.

Requirements

CRToast uses ARC and requires iOS 7.0+. Works for iPhone and iPad.

Installation

CocoaPods

pod 'CWStatusBarNotification', '~> 3.0'

Manual

Copy the folder CWStatusBarNotification to your project.

Usage

Notifications can be created through CWStatusBarNotificationManager's showNotificationWithOptions:completionBlock: This will queue up a notification with the options specified. You provide options for your notification in a dictionary using the keys in CWStatusBarNotification.h

Example

This code

NSDictionary *options = @{kCWStatusBarNotificationTextKey : @"Hello World!",
                          kCWStatusBarNotificationTextAlignmentKey : @(NSTextAlignmentCenter),
                          kCWStatusBarNotificationBackgroundColorKey : [UIColor redColor],
                          kCWStatusBarNotificationAnimationTypeKey : @(CWStatusBarNotificationAnimationTypeSpring),
                          kCWStatusBarNotificationAnimationInStyleKey : @(CWStatusBarNotificationAnimationStyleLeft),
                          kCWStatusBarNotificationAnimationOutStyleKey : @(CWStatusBarNotificationAnimationStyleRight),
                          kCWStatusBarNotificationAnimationInTimeIntervalKey : @(0.5),
                          kCWStatusBarNotificationAnimationOutTimeIntervalKey: @(0.5)};
    [CWStatusBarNotificationManager showNotificationWithOptions:options
                                                completionBlock:^{
                                                    NSLog(@"Completed");
                                                }];

Generates this

Customization

CWStatusBarNotification is very customizable. Taking a hint from UIStringDrawing's drawInRect:withAttributes: book, notifications are created with dictionaries filled with all their options.

Customizing Appearance

CWStatusBarNotification allows for setting of

• Alert Text
• Text Color
• Text Font
• Text Alignment
• Text Color
• Text Shadow Color
• Text Shadow Offset
• Left aligned image

Customizing Animation

CWStatusBarNotification also allows for animation customization. This includes.

• Animation Type (Linear or Spring)
• Presentation Type (Slide over bars or push content out)
• Direction (Enter and exit in any direction)
• Enter, Stay on Screen and Exit Timing

Setting Defaults

There are sane defaults set for all properties, however you can set a default set of options for your application's notifications using CWStatusBarNotificationManagers's setDefaultOptions:.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Cezary Wojcik <http://www.cezarywojcik.com>

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