Advanced iOS App Development: Core Animation

Course details

Creating intricate, eye-catching animations for your iOS apps is key to delighting your users and making the interactive experience something they will remember. In this course you can explore the Core Animation API, from basic layer animations to custom view controller transitions and 3D animations. Instructor Harrison Ferrone shows how to build simple layer animations, debug layer trees for cleaner Swift code, group animations, and add easing, looping, and transitions—all the features you need to create professional-looking UI animation. Plus, learn how to animate gradient color shifts, shapes, and the position of objects along a path; develop custom actions and transactions; and build 3D effects, including particle emitters. By the end of the course you'll have the foundations to create complex and beautiful iOS animations entirely through code.

Learning objectives
Core Animation basics
Simple layer animation
Reusing animation
Spring animation
Keys and delegates
Easing and looping
Keyframe animation
Transitions
Animating graphics, shapes, and paths
Custom actions
3D effects

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - An advanced look at CoreAnimation
02 - What you should know

1. Getting Started

03 - Starter project overview
04 - Core Animation 101

2. Thinking in Layers

05 - Simple layer animation
06 - Reusing animations
07 - Using fill modes
08 - Working with springs, part 1
09 - Working with springs, part 2
10 - Understanding the presentation layer
11 - Keys and delegates, part 1
12 - Keys and delegates, part 2
13 - Easing and looping animations
14 - Chapter challenge
15 - Solution

3. Groups, Keyframes, and Transitions

16 - Creating animation groups
17 - Working with keyframe animations, part 1
18 - Working with keyframe animations, part 2
19 - Using layer transitions
20 - Chapter challenge
21 - Solution

4. Shape Layers and Beyond

22 - Animating gradients
23 - Working with shape properties
24 - Animating keyframes by path
25 - Modifying shapes
26 - Working with replicator layers
27 - Chapter challenge
28 - Solution

5. Customizing Actions and Transactions

29 - Creating action objects
30 - CALayerDelegate
31 - Using custom transactions
32 - Chapter challenge
33 - Solution

6. 3D Effects and Animations

34 - Creating perspective
35 - Working in 3D
36 - Animating in 3D
37 - Creating a particle emitter
38 - Customizing emitter cells
39 - Chapter challenge
40 - Solution

Conclusion

41 - Next steps

Advanced iOS App Development: Core Animation

Authors

Harrison Ferrone