Core Animation: Simplified Animation Techniques for Mac® and iPhone® Development

Chapter 3. Basic Animations

In This Chapter

• The Simplest Animations

• The Animation Proxy Object

• The Differences Between Window, View, and Layer Animation

• Preparing a View to Perform Layer Animation

• Using CABasicAnimation

• Useful Animation Properties

• Animation Grouping

Core Animation is a powerful and mature technology that enables you to create animations that are as simple as you like or as complex as you need. To perform simple animations on windows and views, Apple provides the animation proxy object that, when called, causes an implicit animation to play when some visual component such as the view frame, opacity, or location is changed. For basic layer animation, the CABasicAnimation class provides a way to animate between two ...