SpringWithDamping for CALayer animations?

Question

After playing around a lot with the UIView dynamic animations introduced in iOS 7, most notably:

[UIView animateWithDuration: delay: usingSpringWi         


        

Answer 1

I wrote a class to create CASpringAnimation instance. It works in a pretty simple way:

By creating a spring animation from UIKit API, it arrests the created CASpringAnimation instance from the view's layer, copies it and returns it.

But I don't know if it is App Store safe that to create CASpringAnimation in this way.

import UIKit

private let SharedCASpringAnimationFactory = CASpringAnimationFactory()

public class CASpringAnimationFactory {
    private var dummyView: UIView

    private init() {
        dummyView = UIView(frame: CGRect.zeroRect)
    }

    private class var shared: CASpringAnimationFactory {
        return SharedCASpringAnimationFactory
    }


     public class func animation(#keyPath: String, dumping: CGFloat, initialSpringVelocity: CGFloat) -> CABasicAnimation {
        let duration = CATransaction.animationDuration()

        UIView.animateWithDuration(duration, delay: 0.0, usingSpringWithDamping: dumping, initialSpringVelocity: initialSpringVelocity, options: nil,
            animations: { () -> Void in
                CASpringAnimationFactory.shared.dummyView.bounds = CGRect(origin: CGPoint.zero, size: CGSize(width: 100, height: 100))
            }, completion: nil)

        let dummyLayer = CASpringAnimationFactory.shared.dummyView.layer

        let animations = dummyLayer.animationKeys().map {dummyLayer.animationForKey($0 as String) as CAAnimation}

        let arrestedAnimation = animations.first!.copy() as CABasicAnimation
        arrestedAnimation.keyPath = keyPath
        arrestedAnimation.fromValue = nil
        arrestedAnimation.toValue = nil

        dummyLayer.removeAllAnimations()
        shared.dummyView.bounds = CGRect.zeroRect

        return arrestedAnimation
    }
}