In my recent course Go Further With Swift, I showed you how to code a functional iOS weather app with live weather data, custom UI components, and some slick animations to bring everything to life.

In this video tutorial from the course, you'll see how to start adding some animation to an iOS app with Swift. We'll begin with constraint-based animation and then advance to cross-fading the background image with a handy technique.

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In the full course, Go Further With Swift: Animation, Networking, and Custom Controls, you'll learn some advanced skills for building professional-quality iOS apps. 

App store customers expect animated, engaging apps with clear feedback on UI events. They want apps that connect to the web to get relevant, up-to-date information. And they want apps that stand out with unique custom interfaces. You'll learn how to add all those features in this course.

Of, if you want to learn the basics of iOS app development with Swift, try some of these courses instead:

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  Create iOS Apps With Swift 3

  iOS 10 has just been released, and with it, Swift 3. Swift is a new programming language from Apple, designed specifically for creating iOS, macOS, and...
  
  


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  Up and Running With Swift 2

  Swift is a new programming language from Apple, designed specifically for creating iOS, OS X and watchOS apps. The designers of Swift drew from the best of...
  
  


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  Code a Side-Scrolling Game With Swift 3 and SpriteKit

  Once in a while, it's important for us as developers to go back to what made us excited about computers in the first place. For Derek Jensen, that is gaming....
  
  


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  Create an Apple TV App With Swift

  As time goes on in the world of development targeting the Apple platform, we continue to find new and exciting ways to engage consumers. The newest Apple...
  
  


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  Unit Testing With Swift and XCTest

  The process of creating an iOS app doesn't stop with the creation of functional code. At some point you will need to verify that the code you have written...
  
  


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  Game Development With Swift and SpriteKit

  If you are anything like me, you were probably interested in computer games when you were younger. I can still remember spending a lot of time wondering how...
  
  

And don't forget that you can find some fantastic, full-featured iOS app templates on Envato Market to get your app development off to a flying start.