19. Controlling Animation with CAAnimation
An animation object drives change over time. While you have not yet used animation objects explicitly, all the animation in iPhone OS is driven by instances of the different animation classes. An animation object is an instruction set (“Move from point A to point B over 2 seconds”) that can be added to a CALayer instance. Many properties of CALayer can be animated by animation objects: opacity, position, transform, bounds, and contents are just a few. When an animation object is added to a layer, that layer begins following the instructions of the animation.
Animation Objects
The abstract superclass for all animation objects is CAAnimation. CAAnimation is responsible for handling timing; it has a ...
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