Core Animation

Animating Smooth Curves With UIBezierPath and CoreAnimation

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If you’ve ever tried using a UIBezierPath to create anything more complex than a rounded corner you’ll understand how excruciatingly annoying it can be to control. Adding even more annoyance to this is there isn’t a lot of practical info out there on interpolating large complex sets of 2D points using cubic or quadratic curves. … Continue reading Animating Smooth Curves With UIBezierPath and CoreAnimation

Intro to POP, iOS Core Animation Wrapper

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Pop is the Core Animation wrapper built by Facebook that underlies their new (Flipboard killing) app, Paper. The interaction, animations and transitions in Paper are current, creative and sophisticated. The lack of imagination in the iOS dev community has been one of my personal frustrations for a long time now. For Facebook to release Pop … Continue reading Intro to POP, iOS Core Animation Wrapper