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.
Facebook 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.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in