What is CATransaction?

CATransaction is the Core Animation mechanism for batching multiple layer-tree operations into atomic updates to the render tree. Every modification to a layer tree must be part of a transaction. Nested transactions are supported.

When to use CATransaction?

The job of CATransaction is to group multiple animation-related actions together. It ensures that the desired animation changes are committed to Core Animation at the same time. Here we begin a transaction and can change any Core Animation enabled properties, which will be animated alongside each other once committed.

What is Core Animation in Swift?

Overview. Core Animation provides high frame rates and smooth animations without burdening the CPU and slowing down your app. Most of the work required to draw each frame of an animation is done for you.

Is Uiview animate asynchronous?

Animates the property changes that take place in the specified animation as an asynchronous operation.

What is animation in iOS?

Animations provide fluid visual transitions between different states of your user interface. In iOS, animations are used extensively to reposition views, change their size, remove them from view hierarchies, and hide them.

What is QuartzCore?

QuartzCore, also known as CoreAnimation, is a framework used by macOS and iOS to create animatable scene graphics. CoreAnimation uses a unique rendering model where the graphics operations are run in a separate process. On macOS, the process is WindowServer.

How do I animate in iOS?

Animate objects in Keynote for iPhone and iPad

1. Tap the object that you want to animate, then tap Animate in the menu that appears.
2. Tap Add Action, then choose an animation.
3. Tap Done in the upper-right corner. You can customize an animation at any time.

Does Core Graphics use Metal?

CoreImage is not Metal, the implementation you describe depends entirely on how core image filters are implemented. Metal is a low level drawing API, I can tell you that it is much faster than other approaches. But, you are comparing apples to oranges.

What is quartz core on iPhone?

The Quartz Core framework on the iPhone contains the classes and supporting elements for Core Animation and also contains items used for Core Image.

What is Quartzcore in Swift?

493. An Objective-C framework used by macOS and iOS to produce animated user interfaces. Also known as Core Animation.

What is First Responder UIKit?

The first responder is whatever control is currently ready to respond to actions. In UIKit this is usually the control that has activated the keyboard and is receiving input.

What is weak and unowned?

The weak reference is an optional type, which means weak reference will set to nil once the instance it refers to frees from memory. On the other hand, unowned reference is a non-optional type, it never will be set to nil and always have some value.