nicklockwood

Hacking UIView animation blocks for fun and profit

In this article, I'm going to explore a way that we can create views that implement custom Core Animation property animations in a natural way.

As we know, layers in iOS come in two flavours: Backing layers and hosted layers. The only difference between them is that the view acts as the layer delegate for its backing layer, but not for any hosted sublayers.

In order to implement the UIView transactional animation blocks, UIView disables all animations by default and then re-enables them individually as required. It does this using the actionForLayer:forKey: method.

Somewhat strangely, UIView doesn't enable animations for every property that CALayer does by default. A notable example is the layer.contents property, which is animatable by default for a hosted layer, but cannot be animated using a UIView animation block.

chockenberry

#!/bin/sh

find=`find /Applications /Applications/Utilities -maxdepth 2 -name '*.app' -exec echo \{\} \;`
#echo $find
IFS=$'\n'
apps=($find)
total=${#apps[*]}
echo "Checking $total applications..."
echo "The following applications will break in Gatekeeper on 10.9.5 and Yosemite:"
count=0

jspahrsummers

/// Observes a run loop to detect any stalling or blocking that occurs.
///
/// This class is thread-safe.
@interface GHRunLoopWatchdog : NSObject

/// Initializes the receiver to watch the specified run loop, using a default
/// stalling threshold.
- (id)initWithRunLoop:(CFRunLoopRef)runLoop;

/// Initializes the receiver to detect when the specified run loop blocks for

smileyborg

/**
 * The following preprocessor macros can be used to adopt the new nullability annotations and generics
 * features available in Xcode 7, while maintaining backwards compatibility with earlier versions of
 * Xcode that do not support these features.
 */

#if __has_feature(nullability)
#   define __ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN      NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN
#   define __ASSUME_NONNULL_END        NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END
#   define __NULLABLE                  nullable