Tap gesture delay with animation

Question

I have several UIView extensions that I call from a tap gesture recognizer. Why does the background color extension have to finish animating before additional taps can be recognized? The alpha extension plus another one I use to animate the position of a view work just fine - meaning I can tap as quickly as I want and they respond immediately.

@IBAction func taps(sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
   if !isAnimating {
      currentLabel.fadeOut()
      backgroundColor.fadeBackgroundOut()
      isAnimating = true   
   } else {
      currentLabel.fadeIn()
      backgroundColor.fadeBackgroundIn(curBackground)
      isAnimating = false
   }
}

func fadeOut() {
   UIView.animateWithDuration(0.5,
      delay: 0.0,
      options: UIViewAnimationOptions.CurveEaseOut,
      animations: { self.alpha = 0.0 },
      completion: nil)
}

func fadeBackgroundIn(aColor: UIColor) {
   UIView.animateWithDuration(1.0,
      delay: 0,
      options: UIViewAnimationOptions.CurveEaseIn,
      animations: { self.backgroundColor = aColor },
      completion: nil)
}

Arun Ammannaya Arun Ammannaya · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-11T06:18:05

Update your extension as:

func fadeOut() {
   UIView.animateWithDuration(0.5,
      delay: 0.0,
      options: [UIViewAnimationOptions.CurveEaseIn , UIViewAnimationOptions.AllowUserInteraction],
      animations: { self.alpha = 0.0 },
      completion: nil)
}

func fadeBackgroundIn(aColor: UIColor) {
    UIView.animateWithDuration(1.0,
        delay: 0,
        options: [UIViewAnimationOptions.CurveEaseIn , UIViewAnimationOptions.AllowUserInteraction],
        animations: { self.backgroundColor = aColor },
        completion: nil)
}

Tap gesture delay with animation

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