Monthly Archives: May 2010

When you use CABasicAnimation to rotate a layer, there are some annoying features to watch out for (annoying to me, anyway). For one, if you specify a transform with a rotation of 360 degrees (translated to radians), Core Animation will helpfully take the shortest path. That is to say, it will do nothing. I guess [...]

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Many newcomers to the iPhone SDK have trouble getting started with Core Animation, but one problem that frequently goes unanswered in forums is the “snap back” when using a CAAnimationGroup. Let’s say you wrote this line of code as part of your CABasicAnimation instance: myAnimation.removedOnCompletion = NO; That line will work, but not if you [...]