96: “Gesture-driven animations”, with special guest Adam Bell

Adam Bell returns to the show to talk about animations, both how to make great use of the built-in animation tools that the iOS SDK ships with, but also how to drive custom, gesture-driven animation logic and the sort of performance optimizations that are typically required when writing that sort of code.

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Links

• Adam on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Motion
• The previous episode with Adam
• Decomposed
• CATransform3D
• SIMD
• Core Animation
• UIViewPropertyAnimator
• CADisplayLink
• Time complexity
• Imagine Engine
• Swift’s @_specialize attribute
• Static vs dynamic dispatch in Swift
• Swift’s @inlinable attribute
• CATransaction
• UISpringTimingParameters
• CAKeyFrameAnimation
• SwiftUI’s animation API
• Detecting whether the “reduce motion” accessibility setting is enabled
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk