CGAffineTransform scale and translation - jump before animation

Question

I am struggling with an issue regarding CGAffineTransform scale and translation where when I set a transform in an animation block on a view that already has a transform the vie

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue, but couldn't find the exact source of the problem. The jump seems to appear only in very specific conditions: If the view animates from a transform t1 to a transform t2 and both transforms are a combination of a scale and a translation (that's exactly your case). Given the following workaround, which doesn't make sense to me, I assume it's a bug in Core Animation.

First, I tried using CATransform3D instead of CGAffineTransform.

Old code:

var transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity
transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, 1.1, 1.1)
transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, 10, 10)
view.layer.setAffineTransform(transform)

New code:

var transform = CATransform3DIdentity
transform = CATransform3DScale(transform, 1.1, 1.1, 1.0)
transform = CATransform3DTranslate(transform, 10, 10, 0)
view.layer.transform = transform

The new code should be equivalent to the old one (the fourth parameter is set to 1.0 or 0 so that there is no scaling/translation in z direction), and in fact it shows the same jumping. However, here comes the black magic: In the scale transformation, change the z parameter to anything different from 1.0, like this:

transform = CATransform3DScale(transform, 1.1, 1.1, 1.01)

This parameter should have no effect, but now the jump is gone.