How to prevent CALayer from implicit animations?

Question

When I set the backgroundColor property of an CALayer instance, the change seems to be slightly animated. But I don\'t want that in my case. How ca

Answer 1

If you want to disable implicit animations for a property completely, you can do so by assigning to the actions dictionary:

myLayer.actions = @{@"backgroundColor": [NSNull null]};

If you wish to disable the implicit animation on a case by case basis, then using [CATransaction setDisableActions:YES] is still the better way to do it.