Facebook Open-Sources Pop, The Animation Engine Behind Its Paper IPhone App

Facebook announced Monday that it is open-sourcing the animation engine behind its Paper iPhone application, Pop.

PopGraphic650Facebook announced Monday that it is open-sourcing the animation engine behind its Paper iPhone application, Pop.

Pop brought dynamic animations to the iPhone and enabled Facebook to bring a UIScrollView experience to Paper.

Software Engineer Kimon Tsinteris, who co-founded Push Pop Press before joining Facebook, offered more details on Pop in a post on the social network’s engineering blog:

Since the original iPhone, iOS has excelled at supporting static animations. The Apple-provided Core Animation framework makes linear, ease-in, ease-out, and ease-in-ease-out animations simple to leverage.

The innovation of touch interfaces has ushered in a new wave of software design.

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