Core Animation is an animation graphics compositing framework used by macOS (Mac OS X Leopard and later), iOS, watchOS, and tvOS to produce animated user interfaces.[1]
Overview
editCore Animation provides a way for developers to produce animated user interfaces via an implicit animation model as well as an "explicit" model. The developer specifies the original and final states of an object, and Core Animation handles interpolation. This allows animated interfaces to be created with relative ease, as no specific code for the animation is required by the developer.[2]
Core Animation can animate any visual element, and it provides a unified way of accessing Core Image, Core Video, and the other Quartz technologies. Core Animation rendering can be accelerated by a graphics processor (GPU).[1]
Animated sequences execute in a thread independent from the main run loop, allowing application processing to occur while the animation is in progress. In this way, application performance is not affected, and animations can be stopped, reversed, or retargeted while in progress.[1]
History
editCore Animation first appeared in Mac OS X Leopard, but actually first emerged from the iPhone software team.[citation needed] It was shown publicly for the first time on August 7, 2006[3][circular reference] during WWDC 2006. At the Macworld Expo 2007, Apple announced that the iPhone runs a specially adapted version of OS X and uses Core Animation.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Apple – Developer – Leopard Technology Series for Developers – Leopard Developer Application Technologies Overview". Retrieved June 12, 2007.
- ^ "Apple – Mac OS X Leopard – Technology – Core Animation". Archived from the original on October 24, 2007. Retrieved October 30, 2007.
- ^ Apple Worldwide Developers Conference#2000s
External links
edit- Core Animation on Apple's developer site (Accessed 2010-02-13)
- Apple's Core Animation Programming Guide (Accessed 2017-08-01)