How to animate a human written stroke using Swift/iOS?

Question

Objective

I am attempting to create an animated approximation of human writing, using a UIBezierPath generated from a glyph. I understand and I have rea

Answer 1

A couple of concepts in the Apple CAShapeLayer (strokeStart and strokeEnd) really don't seem to operate as expected when animated.

But surely animating the strokeEnd is exactly what you want to do. Use multiple CAShapeLayers over top of one another, each one representing one stroke of the pen to form the desired character shape.