iOS Core Animation: Advanced Techniques

Table of contents

1. About This eBook
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication Page
5. Contents at a Glance
6. Table of Contents
7. About the Author
8. Acknowledgments
9. Editor’s Note: We Want to Hear from You!
10. Reader Services
11. Preface
    1. Audience and Material
    2. Book Structure
    3. Before We Begin
12. I: The Layer Beneath
    1. 1. The Layer Tree
       1. Layers and Views
       2. Layer Capabilities
       3. Working with Layers
       4. Summary
    2. 2. The Backing Image
       1. The contents Image
       2. Custom Drawing
       3. Summary
    3. 3. Layer Geometry
       1. Layout
       2. anchorPoint
       3. Coordinate Systems
       4. Hit Testing
       5. Automatic Layout
       6. Summary
    4. 4. Visual Effects
       1. Rounded Corners
       2. Layer Borders
       3. Drop Shadows
       4. Layer Masking
       5. Scaling Filters
       6. Group Opacity
       7. Summary
    5. 5. Transforms
       1. Affine Transforms
       2. 3D Transforms
       3. Solid Objects
       4. Summary
    6. 6. Specialized Layers
       1. CAShapeLayer
       2. CATextLayer
       3. CATransformLayer
       4. CAGradientLayer
       5. CAReplicatorLayer
       6. CAScrollLayer
       7. CATiledLayer
       8. CAEmitterLayer
       9. CAEAGLLayer
       10. AVPlayerLayer
       11. Summary
13. II: Setting Things in Motion
    1. 7. Implicit Animations
       1. Transactions
       2. Completion Blocks
       3. Layer Actions
       4. Presentation Versus Model
       5. Summary
    2. 8. Explicit Animations
       1. Property Animations
       2. Animation Groups
       3. Transitions
       4. Canceling an Animation in Progress
       5. Summary
    3. 9. Layer Time
       1. The CAMediaTiming Protocol
       2. Hierarchical Time
       3. Manual Animation
       4. Summary
    4. 10. Easing
       1. Animation Velocity
       2. Custom Easing Functions
       3. Summary
    5. 11. Timer-Based Animation
       1. Frame Timing
       2. Physical Simulation
       3. Summary
14. III: The Performance of a Lifetime
    1. 12. Tuning for Speed
       1. CPU Versus GPU
       2. Measure, Don’t Guess
       3. Instruments
       4. A Worked Example
       5. Summary
    2. 13. Efficient Drawing
       1. Software Drawing
       2. Vector Graphics
       3. Dirty Rectangles
       4. Asynchronous Drawing
       5. Summary
    3. 14. Image IO
       1. Loading and Latency
       2. Caching
       3. File Format
       4. Summary
    4. 15. Layer Performance
       1. Inexplicit Drawing
       2. Offscreen Rendering
       3. Blending and Overdraw
       4. Reducing Layer Count
       5. Summary
15. Index
16. Where Are the Companion Content Files?