The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook, Fifth Edition

Recipe: Using Core Animation Transitions

In addition to UIView animations, iOS supports Core Animation as part of its Quartz Core framework. The Core Animation API offers highly customizable animation solutions for your iOS applications. Specifically, it offers built-in transitions that provide the same kind of view-to-view changes available in Recipe 4-8, as well as a vast wealth of other fundamental animation possibilities that are beyond the scope of this chapter.

Note

With each release of iOS, Apple has continually added more Core Animation functionality to UIKit directly. iOS 7 introduced key frame animation to UIView—a feature that previously required Core Animation.

Core Animation transitions expand your UIView animation vocabulary ...