fading slideshow in an imageview. xCode 4.2 - xcode

Question

I am trying to make a slideshow in an imageview that uses also fade-in fade-out effects.
so far ive done this:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
animationView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
animationView.animationImages = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
[UIImage imageNamed:#"photo1.jpg"],
[UIImage imageNamed:#"photo2.jpg"],
[UIImage imageNamed:#"photo3.jpg"], nil];
animationView.animationDuration = 5;
animationView.animationRepeatCount = 0;
[animationView startAnimating];
[self.view addSubview:animationView];
}
images do appear one after the other, in a 5 sec delay, what i want now is to make them fade-in and fade-out each time an image appears, any suggestions on that?
Thanks in advance for your help

Answer 1

I was trying to do something similar. What I did was setup a timer that called a UIView transitionWithView on a UIImageView that was incrementing through the array of my slideshow photos.
- (void)viewDidLoad{
[super viewDidLoad];
self.welcomePhotos = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"welcome_1.png",#"welcome_2.png", #"welcome_3.png", nil];
self.imageView1.image = [UIImage imageNamed:[self.welcomePhotos objectAtIndex:0]];
[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:3.0 target:self selector:#selector(transitionPhotos) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
}
-(void)transitionPhotos{
if (photoCount < [self.welcomePhotos count] - 1){
photoCount ++;
}else{
photoCount = 0;
}
[UIView transitionWithView:self.imageView1
duration:2.0
options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionCrossDissolve
animations:^{ self.imageView1.image = [UIImage imageNamed:[self.welcomePhotos objectAtIndex:photoCount]]; }
completion:NULL];
}