core animation xml or json framework

Question

Does anyone know if there is a framework for dynamically loading core animation sequences from some kind of description file like xml or json or even better if there is some kind of core animation studio. I would need some way to allow designers to work on animations without having to talk to programmers for every single change ...

Answer 1

In a project I worked on, we did this exact thing (at least the description part). The animation data is passed down in JSON and parsed and interpreted. It maps to a lot of the major animation capabilities provided by Core Animation--mostly position and frame animations.

Unfortunately what we developed is proprietary and it is highly doubtful the company would be willing to release it as open source.

In the end my answer to your question is there don't appear to be any frameworks that currently support this, however, implementing it yourself wouldn't be too terribly difficult. Then creating a tool your designers can use to generate the animation JSON would be the next logical step. If the tool was not WYSIWYG but rather just a bit of a pseudo design tool, it probably wouldn't be too hard to create either.

Good luck and best regards.