Chapter 1. What Is Core Animation?

In This Chapter

• Animation and the Cartesian Plane

• Your Free Lunch

• What Is a Layer?

• Animation and Layers

• Math? I Was Told There Would Be No Math

• Core Animation and the iPhone

• Notes on Sample Projects

Core Animation enables you to develop complex animations for many different types of applications. You can simply animate your views within a window, or you can create a thousand sprites represented by layers on the screen for that next killer game. In this chapter, we introduce you to the basic concepts behind Core Animation. We take a look at views and layers to ensure you understand what you can do with animation in each. We start with a discussion about animation and the coordinate plane and then ...

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