How can I exclude a piece of code inside a core animation block from being animated?

Question

I have an core animation block where I call a method that will load a view controller. there is an custom transition between two view controllers happening. However, when th

Answer 1

You should be able to suppress animations for a section of the UIView animation block by wrapping that section in a CATransaction and disabling animations for it:

[CATransaction begin];
[CATransaction setValue:(id)kCFBooleanTrue forKey:kCATransactionDisableActions];    

// Changes to disable animation for here
[CATransaction commit];