Only real solution for professional animation on iOS.

There’s a lot you can do with Core Animation that doesn’t require a design tool, but once you get into any non-trivial transforms it is too cost-prohibitive to do them by hand for long. While I’m a programmer mainly with some basic design skills, I found this tool to be easy for even someone of my background to craft
some pretty decent animations. I can imagine a professional designer could do some stunning work.

This application is not without room for improvement, but in a field with very little competition, it adds a lot of value over hand-coding.

Keep in mind that the functionality here is currently focused mainly on the needs of games with lots of image assets. While it can support custom-drawn views, like you might get get PaintCode, it requires some amount of massaging of the generated code to integrate the two.

Four stars for now because I’d like to see this application grow a bit to provide more flexibility in non-gaming apps, but still it is very good.

FranGro about Core Animator, v1.3