Introduction to Animation Overview
Describes the animation facilities provided by OS X.
Organization of This Document
This document has the following chapters:
What Is Animation? describes what animation is and how it is used in OS X.
Animation Basics describes the basic components of an animation.
OS X Animation Technologies describes the technologies that OS X provides for animation.
Choosing the Animation Technology for Your Application explores the strong points of Core Animation layers and layer-backed views and provides guidelines for choosing which is appropriate for your application.
See Also
For more information about Core Animation and the Cocoa animation classes, see the following resources:
Core Animation Programming Guide provides detailed information on integrating Core Animation in your application.
Animation Programming Guide for Cocoa describes the animation classes and protocols provided by the Application Kit.
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