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Chapter 8. Core Animation basics > Introduction to Core Animation
8.1. Introduction to Core Animation
Core Animation became part of the Cocoa framework with the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It was designed to help Cocoa developers easily integrate animations within their applications. In this section we’ll examine Core Animation further. You’ll learn about what Core Animation provides and look at how it makes your lives easier with a basic animation example.
8.1.1. What is Core Animation?
In a nutshell, Core Animation provides an API that makes it easy to create animated user interfaces. The basic Core Animation classes can be found in the Quartz framework.
