After the last chapter’s marathon of coding, this one is a cinch. We need a shadow to appear underneath the menu, so we need 3 things:

1. a shadow object
2. a reveal animation
3. a hide animation

Keeping consistent with the various layers we’re creating as separate C4CanvasController objects, we’re going to do the same here.

In MenuShadow.swift simply paste the following into the body of the class:

var reveal : C4ViewAnimation?
var hide : C4ViewAnimation?

public override func setup() {
    canvas.frame = C4Rect(UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds)
    canvas.backgroundColor = black
    canvas.opacity = 0.0
    createShadowAnimations()
}

func createShadowAnimations() {
    reveal = C4ViewAnimation(duration:0.25) {
        self.canvas.opacity = 0.44
    }
    reveal?.curve = .EaseOut
    
    hide = C4ViewAnimation(duration:0.25) {
        self.canvas.opacity = 0.0
    }
    hide?.curve = .EaseOut
}

That’s it.

Since this class is so simple, we’re not going to test it. We’ll see its effect in the next chapter when we pull the entire menu together.

Here’s a copy of the MenuShadow.swift class:

Almost There

Seriously, we’re almost done.

You can get through this tutorial.

I believe in you.¹