How to disable animations for a view and all it's subviews temporarily?

Question

I have some views with subviews, and there are animations going on. Before using shouldRasterize = YES I want to disable animations, so that all animation commands will be ignored inside that view hierarchy sub-branch.

Is there an easy way to do it?

Answer 1

You can use next static method in UIView:

+ (void)setAnimationsEnabled:(BOOL)enabled

See reference for detail info

Answer 2

As said by Victor, you can use the static method + (void)setAnimationsEnabled:(BOOL)enabled of UIView to disable animations. However, this will disable animations for all views after you call that method. You should remember to enable animations later. As of disabling animations for a specific hierarchy of views but no others, that is not possible.