ios - How do I simultaneously animate a UIImageView's image and the UIImageView itself?

Question

The title may not be so clear, but what I want to do is to make the UIImageView display a series of images (sort of like a gif) and I do this by setting the animationImages to an array of images and then calling [imageView startAnimating];. This works fine. I also have code that moves the UIImageView around with a CABasicAnimation, and this animation code also works fine. However, when I try to both animate the images of the UIImageView and try to move the UIImageView around, the images of the UIImageView stop animating. Is there a workaround?

Here's my code for animating the content of the UIImageView:

    self.playerSprite = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[self.player.animationImages objectAtIndex:0]];
    [self.playerSprite setFrame:CGRectMake(self.center.x, self.center.y, self.tileSet.constants.TILE_WIDTH, self.tileSet.constants.TILE_HEIGHT)];
    self.playerSprite.animationImages = self.player.animationImages;
    self.playerSprite.animationDuration = self.tileSet.constants.animationDuration;
    self.playerSprite.animationRepeatCount = 0; //Makes it repeat indefinitely

And here's my coding for animating the UIImageView with a CABasicAnimation:

float playerSpriteX = self.playerSprite.center.x;
float playerSpriteY = self.playerSprite.center.y;

CABasicAnimation *moveAnimation = [CABasicAnimation animation];
moveAnimation.toValue = [NSValue valueWithCGPoint:CGPointMake(playerSpriteX + TILE_WIDTH, playerSpriteY)];
[moveAnimation setDelegate:self];
[moveAnimation setFillMode:kCAFillModeForwards];
[moveAnimation setRemovedOnCompletion:NO];
[moveAnimation setDuration:MOVE_ANIMATION_DURATION];       
[self.playerSprite.layer addAnimation:moveAnimation forKey:@"position"];

So the gif effect isn't working while the UIImageView's position is being animated. My question is how can I make it so the UIImageView cycles through an array of images while its position is being animated?

Answer 1

This is speculation and I haven't tested this idea at all, but have you considered implementing the image animation in the same fashion you're animating the position, with a CAKeyframeAnimation? You'd need to construct an array of CGImage objects from your UIImage array (to set the values property of the keyframe animation) but it looks like a pretty straightforward conversion:

CAKeyframeAnimation *imageAnimation = [CAKeyframeAnimation animation];
imageAnimation.calculationMode = kCAAnimationDiscrete; // or maybe kCAAnimationPaced
imageAnimation.duration = self.tileSet.constants.animationDuration;
imageAnimation.repeatCount = HUGE_VALF;
// the following method will need to be implemented to cast your UIImage array to CGImages
imageAnimation.values = [self animationCGImagesArray];
[self.playerSprite.layer addAnimation:imageAnimation forKey:@"contents"];

-(NSArray*)animationCGImagesArray {
    NSMutableArray *array = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:[self.player.animationImages count]];
    for (UIImage *image in self.player.animationImages) {
        [array addObject:(id)[image CGImage]];
    }
    return [NSArray arrayWithArray:array];
}