# Ciechan/BCGenieEffect

An OSX style genie effect inside your iOS app.

Repository: https://github.com/Ciechan/BCGenieEffect
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bcgenieeffect
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2017-09-24T12:25:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4999, "days_push": 3265, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1450, forks 195 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:45.751094+00:00)

## What it is
An Objective-C UIView category that reproduces the macOS genie minimize effect inside iOS apps using Core Animation. It supports animating views in and out toward a custom destination rectangle and edge.

## Use cases
- add a genie minimize animation to a view in my iOS app
- animate a UIView shrinking into a dock-like rectangle
- recreate the OSX genie effect on iOS
- animate a view disappearing toward the top edge of a rect
- make a window-style suck-in transition for thumbnails

## When to choose
- you want the classic macOS genie effect in an iOS app with a simple UIView category API
- you need Core Animation-based transitions with custom destination rect and edge

## When to avoid
- you need Swift-native or SwiftUI animation APIs
- your animated view overlaps the destination edge, which can cause glitches
- you need actively maintained code with recent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, graphics
- platform: cpp
- tags: objective-c, core-animation, uiview-category, genie-effect, macos-style-transition, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- Ciechan/BCGenieEffect (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.751094+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:35:53.643970+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Ciechan/BCGenieEffect (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.751094+00:00, sha 45f4d2906d06)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.