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CALayer

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A new blog from Shannon Potter that focuses on technical topics around the Core Animation framework. CALayer documents tips, techniques, pitfalls, and opinions about Core Animation, with occasional posts about other related iOS graphics and media frameworks such as Core Image, SceneKit and Metal. So far Shannon has written in depth on CATransaction and CAShapeLayer and a quick look at closure-based CAAnimationDelegate. Core Animation can be tricky to master and so this blog could become a great place to learn more.

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