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JeOam / Animation.md
Last active March 14, 2025 01:34
iOS Core Animation: Advanced Techniques, Part 1: The Layer Beneath

Author: https://www.cyanhall.com/

1. The Layer Tree

Core Animation's original name is Layer Kit

Core Animation is a compositing engine; its job is to compose different pieces of visual content on the screen, and to do so as fast as possible. The content in question is divided into individual layers stored in a hierarchy known as the layer tree. This tree forms the underpinning for all of UIKit, and for everything that you see on the screen in an iOS application.

In UIView, tasks such as rendering, layout and animation are all managed by a Core Animation class called CALayer. The only major feature of UIView that isn’t handled by CALayer is user interaction.

There are four hierarchies, each performing a different role:

@tonymtz
tonymtz / gist:714e73ccb79e21c4fc9c
Created November 15, 2014 00:02
Uninstall XQuartz.app from OSX Yosemite
launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
sudo rm -rf /opt/X11* /Library/Launch*/org.macosforge.xquartz.* /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app /etc/*paths.d/*XQuartz
sudo pkgutil --forget org.macosforge.xquartz.pkg
# Log out and log in
@tmarshall
tmarshall / aws-sns-example.js
Last active October 30, 2022 06:12
aws-sdk sns example, in Node.js
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
AWS.config.update({
accessKeyId: '{AWS_KEY}',
secretAccessKey: '{AWS_SECRET}',
region: '{SNS_REGION}'
});
var sns = new AWS.SNS();
@calebd
calebd / AsynchronousOperation.swift
Last active February 27, 2025 09:17
Concurrent NSOperation in Swift
import Foundation
/// An abstract class that makes building simple asynchronous operations easy.
/// Subclasses must implement `execute()` to perform any work and call
/// `finish()` when they are done. All `NSOperation` work will be handled
/// automatically.
open class AsynchronousOperation: Operation {
// MARK: - Properties
@aegzorz
aegzorz / UIView+Recursion.h
Created July 11, 2013 10:40
Recursively find a subview.
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface UIView (Recursion)
/**
Return YES from the block to recurse into the subview.
Set stop to YES to return the subview.
*/
- (UIView*)findViewRecursively:(BOOL(^)(UIView* subview, BOOL* stop))recurse;
@mbinna
mbinna / podforceupdate.sh
Created December 4, 2012 09:43
Clear CocoaPods cache, re-download and re-install all pods
#!/usr/bin/env bash
rm -rf "${HOME}/Library/Caches/CocoaPods"
rm -rf "`pwd`/Pods/"
pod update