Video for this session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JePwHjVj6U Code for this session: https://github.com/xamarin/Seminars/tree/master/2012-09-20-CoreAnimation CoreAnimation is the foundation for creating high-performance and whimsical user interfaces, but is often overlooked by app developers. Frank explores all the different ways that developers can take advantage of this powerful library to delight users. Starting with the high level view controller transitions and automatic view property animations, Frank will then dive down into CALayer transforms, actions, and key framing. Whether you’re creating a line of business application or a game, your users will thank you for enhancing their UI.

1. Delight Your Users
with Core Animation
September 20th, 2012
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2. Agenda
Core Animation
Frank A. Krueger
Developer at Xamarin
fak@xamarin.com
@praeclarum on Twitter
Xamarin
Copyright 2012 © Xamarin Inc. All rights reserved

3. Core Animation
Low-level Graphics Framework
Responsible for compositing
bitmaps onto the screen

4. UI Hierarchy
UIViewControllers
UIViews
CALayers

5. How to Animate
Transitions
Implicit Animations
Explicit Animations

6. Transitions
UIViewController.ModalTransitionStyle
UIView.Transition (...)
demo

7. Implicit Animation
UIView.Animate (Action, ...)
what
View Alpha, Color, Frame, Transform
Layer Opacity, Transform
demo

8. Explicit Animation
CABasicAnimation
CAKeyframeAnimation
what
View and Layer Animatable Properties
Custom Layer Animatable Properties
demo

9. Xamarin
Seminar
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