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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/9051-beginning-ios-animations/lessons/13
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What鈥檚 the purpose of creating a temporary view to slide in for the animation? It seems to work fine if you just animate the background image transition in method fade inside of a UIView.animate. I can鈥檛 tell the difference when you do this:

  bgImageView.center.y += 20
  let origSize = bgImageView.bounds.width
  bgImageView.bounds.size.width = bgImageView.bounds.width * 1.3

  UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, delay: 0, options: .curveEaseIn, animations: {
        self.bgImageView.image = toImage
        self.bgImageView.bounds.size.width = origSize
        self.bgImageView.center.y -= 20
        
    }) { (_) in
        
    }
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The temp view lets us create a crossfade effect. In your example, you only see one image at a time. If you use the temp view like we do in the video, the background images will both be partially visible in the middle of the animation:

crossfade

To see that in action, try making the animation longer, or do a screen recording and step through the frames of the video.