Awesome iOS Animation

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title: Awesome iOS Animation slug: awesome-ios-animation category: Themed Directories tags:

• iOS
• animation
• mobile
• Objective-C
• Swift source: name: GitHub url: https://github.com/ameizi/awesome-ios-animation logo: https://github.githubassets.com/images/modules/logos_page/GitHub-Mark.png featured: false

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Overview

Awesome iOS Animation is a curated, continuously updated directory of iOS animation resources. It focuses on popular and visually rich animation frameworks and libraries for both Objective-C and Swift, providing direct links and previews to help developers quickly find suitable tools for adding animations to their apps.

Features

• Curated list of iOS animation libraries
  Focused collection of mainstream and visually impressive animation frameworks for iOS.

• Covers Objective-C and Swift
  Includes libraries and examples usable from both major iOS languages.

• Direct links to libraries and demos
  Each entry links directly to the corresponding GitHub repository or demo page.

• Inline visual previews (GIFs)
  Many listed frameworks include animated GIFs to quickly showcase animation styles and behaviors.

• Continuously updated list
  The maintainer notes that the directory is updated from time to time with new or improved animation frameworks.

• Subjective but transparent ordering
  Items are ordered by the maintainer’s personal preference, not by popularity or community ranking.

• Example libraries referenced
  A non-exhaustive sample of items included:

  • POP – https://github.com/facebook/pop
    A popular animation engine from Facebook.
  • Popping – https://github.com/schneiderandre/popping
    A collection of animations built on top of POP.
  • Spring – https://github.com/MengTo/Spring
    A Swift-based animation library with ready-made animations.
  • TransitionButton – https://github.com/AladinWay/TransitionButton
    A button component with built-in animated state transitions.
  • JNWSpringAnimation – https://github.com/jwilling/JNWSpringAnimation
    Spring-based animation library for iOS.
  • DCAnimationKit – https://github.com/daltoniam/DCAnimationKit
    A set of prebuilt animations such as “Tada” and others.

Use Cases

• Discovering animation frameworks to enhance UI/UX in iOS apps.
• Comparing visual animation styles via embedded GIF previews.
• Quickly navigating to source code and documentation for animation libraries.

Pricing

• Not applicable. This is an open GitHub directory listing external resources; pricing, if any, is determined by each individual library’s repository or license.