A customizable, interactive, auto expanding and collapsing side menu for iOS written in Swift.
Interactive Side Menu is a Swift library for iOS that provides a customizable, interactive side navigation menu with auto-expanding and collapsing behavior. It solves the need for a reusable, animated side menu component in iOS apps, offering extensive customization options for animations and layout.
iOS developers building apps that require a side navigation menu, particularly those using Swift and looking for a flexible, easy-to-integrate solution.
Developers choose Interactive Side Menu for its high degree of customization, smooth interactive animations, and straightforward integration via subclassing and protocols, avoiding the complexity of building a side menu from scratch.
iOS Interactive Side Menu written in Swift.
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Provides fine-grained control over animation duration, visible content width, content scale, and spring animations, with separate settings for portrait and landscape orientations as demonstrated in the sample code.
Simplifies setup by requiring only subclassing of MenuContainerViewController and MenuViewController, and using the SideMenuItemContent protocol for menu items, reducing boilerplate.
Works seamlessly with UINavigationController and UITabBarController, as shown in the sample project where navigation controllers are directly conformed to SideMenuItemContent.
Allows any UIViewController to become a menu item by conforming to SideMenuItemContent, enabling flexible and reusable menu structures without heavy modifications.
The README admits a critical issue where contentScale values between 0.87 and 0.91 cause safeAreaInsets.top to reset to zero, leading to layout shifts when the menu closes—a significant drawback for production apps.
Forces a specific subclassing approach for view controllers, which can clash with existing app architectures or make integration in complex, modular codebases cumbersome and invasive.
Supports Swift 3.0+ and Xcode 8.1+, but lacks recent updates or evidence of active development, raising concerns about long-term compatibility with newer iOS versions and Swift features.