A better way to animate resizing of UIView and subviews?

Question

Example screen capture:

What is a better way to animate the resizing of a UIView that includes subviews?

My current method:

In the screen capture, the parent UIView (orange) has a subview UILabel (yellow + autoresizing). animateWithDuration is animating the resizing of the parent UIView's frame. The problem with this method is it does not animate the resizing of the subview. It abruptly changes, where it should scale animatedly.

Is explicitly animating the subview best, or is there a more efficient method? (e.g. CGAffineTransform?)

Sample code:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.

    self.parentView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 100, 200, 200)];
    self.parentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor orangeColor];
    [self.view addSubview:self.parentView];

    self.childLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 180, 180)];
    self.childLabel.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth |
                                     UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
    self.childLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor yellowColor];
    [self.parentView addSubview:self.childLabel];

    [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:2
                                     target:self
                                   selector:@selector(randomizeParentViewSize)
                                   userInfo:nil
                                    repeats:YES];
}

- (void)randomizeParentViewSize {
    CGFloat width = arc4random_uniform(100) + 50;
    CGFloat height = arc4random_uniform(100) + 50;

    [UIView animateWithDuration:1.5f
                          delay:0.0f
                        options:0
                     animations:^{
                         self.parentView.frame = CGRectMake(10, 50 + height, width, height);
                     }
                     completion:^(BOOL finished) {
                     }];
}

Answer 1

Use UIViewAnimationOptionLayoutSubviews:

1. Add proper leading, trailing, top and bottom constraints on the subview.
2. [UIView animateWithDuration:0.2 delay:0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionLayoutSubviews animations:^{ //resize the superview } completion:nil];

Answer 2

To animate the view and also the subview you could use this code:

[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5f animations:^{
        self.testView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(0.5, 0.5);
    }];

More Info

You can't use frame, bounds, or center if you are also animating things using CGAffine, So if you also need to move the view use something like this:

    CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(150,400);
    transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, 0.5, 0.5);