At Applidium, we love to add animations to our applications. They add context to the interface, and are a beautiful addition to a static UI. In fact, we enjoy them so much that we open-sourced some of our work on this topic (ADLivelyTableView, ADTransitionController). Today, we are adding a new library to the list: ADLivelyCollectionView, a port of ADLivelyTableView to UICollectionView.

The library comes with pre-defined animations. They are here mainly for demo purposes and we encourage you design your own, in order to produce more subtle visual effects. It’s less than ten lines of code to write!

ADLivelyCollectionView was designed as a subclass of UICollectionView, making its integration as simple as adding two files to your project and turning your instances of UICollectionView into instances of ADLivelyCollectionView.

You can find the source code on our GitHub repository. If you have any comments about the library, we’d love to hear from you on Twitter!