Core animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone: Creating compelling dynamic user interfaces

Bill Dudney9781934356104, 1-934356-10-7

Mac OS X Leopard introduces a fantastic new technology that makes writing applications with animated and cinematic user interfaces much easier. We’ll explore this new technology by starting with the familiar concepts you already know from the pre-Leopard development kits.
Then we’ll see how they apply to the new frameworks and APIs. We’ll build on your existing knowledge of Cocoa and bring you efficiently up to speed on what Core Animation is all about.
With this book in hand, you can add Core Animation to your Cocoa applications, and make stunning user interfaces that your user’s will be showing off to their friends.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 7
Introduction……Page 10
What Is Core Animation?……Page 11
In This Book……Page 12
Acknowledgments……Page 14
Moving Without Animation……Page 17
Introducing Cocoa Animation……Page 20
Animation and the Animator Proxy……Page 23
Animation and Interpolation……Page 24
Basic Animation……Page 28
Keyframe Animations……Page 29
Grouping Animations……Page 35
Animating Transitions……Page 40
Custom Animation and Interpolation……Page 43
Animation Timing Curves……Page 45
Cocoa Animation Timing……Page 52
Chaining Animations……Page 54
Layer-Backed Views……Page 58
View and Layer Hierarchy……Page 59
View Shadow……Page 61
Rotated Views and Controls……Page 63
Layer Backing and Performance Concerns……Page 65
Filtered Views……Page 68
View Filters……Page 69
Background Filters……Page 71
Content Filters……Page 73
Compositing Filters……Page 78
Core Animation……Page 81
Layer-Hosting Views……Page 82
Forming UIs with Layers……Page 84
Organizing Layers in Trees……Page 85
Layer Layout with Constraints……Page 90
Animation Types and Layers……Page 96
Animation Timing……Page 101
Rotation and Layers……Page 107
Managing a Layer’s Contents……Page 109
Drawing in Layers……Page 110
Tiled Layers……Page 111
Animations and Actions……Page 115
Scrolling Layers……Page 118
Geometry Properties……Page 124
Layers in 3D Space……Page 132
Adding Depth to Layer Appearance……Page 133
Custom Layer Layout……Page 137
3D Transformations……Page 143
QuickTime Layers……Page 149
Quartz Composer Composition Layers……Page 158
OpenGL Layers……Page 161
Cocoa Touch……Page 165
Layers and Animations……Page 168
OpenGL Layers……Page 174
Bibliography……Page 178
C……Page 180
L……Page 181
T……Page 182
Z……Page 183