animation: how to animate a view using layer?

Question

Image showing what I would like to achieve

I want to move a view animately from a position to a new postion. If update the layer position of a view, I think the view will animately move to the new position, which is implicit animation I guess, but there's no animation, why?

- (IBAction)startAnimation:(id)sender {
    CGPoint position = self.imageView.layer.position;
    position.y += 90;
    self.imageView.layer.position = position;
}

Answer 1

Implicit animations only happen for standalone layer, not layers backing up views. You will need to explicitly animate the position. You can either do it by creating a CABasicAnimation for the position and add it to the layer or use UIView animations to animate the center property of the view.

Creating an explicit animation

CABasicAnimation *move = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position"];
move.toValue = [NSValue valueWithCGPoint:newPoint];
move.duration = 0.3;
[self.imageView.layer addAnimation:move forKey:@"myMoveAnimation"];

Using UIView animations

[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3 animations:^{
    self.imageView.center = newCenter;
}];