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 animationI

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];
}