How to mimic Keyboard animation on iOS 7 to add "Done" button to numeric keyboard?

In iOS 7, the keyboard uses a new, undocumented animation curve. While some have noted that using an undocumented value for the animation option works, I prefer to use the following:

[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:[notification.userInfo[UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] doubleValue]];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:[notification.userInfo[UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] unsignedIntegerValue]];
[UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES];

// work

[UIView commitAnimations];

While block based animations are the recommendation, the animation curve returned from the keyboard notification is an UIViewAnimationCurve, while the option you would need to pass to block based animations is an UIViewAnimationOptions. Using the traditional UIView animation methods allows you to pipe the value directly in. Most importantly, this will use the new undocumented animation curve (integer value of 7) and cause the animation to match the keyboard. And, it will work just as well on iOS 6 and 7.


I had the same issue and managed to get the animation working with the following parameters for iOS 7:

    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.5
                          delay:0
         usingSpringWithDamping:500.0f
          initialSpringVelocity:0.0f
                        options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveLinear
                     animations:animBlock
                     completion:completionBlock];

EDIT: these values were obtained through debug, and can change with new iOS versions. @DavidBeck's answer works for me in iOS 7 also so I'm linking it here.


Apple is using some undocumented animation with the value 7 in iOS 7.

However the declaration of UIViewAnimationCurve defines values for 0 to 3

typedef enum {
   UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut, // 0
   UIViewAnimationCurveEaseIn,
   UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut,
   UIViewAnimationCurveLinear // 3
} UIViewAnimationCurve;

The UIViewAnimationOptions you need for block based animations is defined as

enum {
   // ...
   UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut            = 0 << 16,
   UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseIn               = 1 << 16,
   UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut              = 2 << 16,
   UIViewAnimationOptionCurveLinear               = 3 << 16,

   UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionNone            = 0 << 20,
   // ...
};

It seems that Apple reserves 4 bits for the animaton curve (20 - 16 = 4) which allows values from 0 to 15 (so there are probably more undocumented values).

With this knowledge you can simply transform an UIViewAnimationCurve into UIViewAnimationOptions by shifting it about 16 bits. In your example this means:

options:[[note.userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] intValue] << 16