ios,uiview,core-animation,cabasicanimation,catransaction
Just looking at your code, I would expect it to flash. Why? Because you have animated timeView's layer's opacity from 0 to 1, but you have not set it to 1 (except in the completion handler, which will happen later). Thus, we animate the presentation layer from 0 to 1...
swift,html-entities,synchronize,catransaction
This problem occurred during decoding HTML entities, so i looked for another way to decode and used the following code: func configureCell(cell: UITableViewCell, atIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) { let object = self.fetchedResultsController.objectAtIndexPath(indexPath) as NSManagedObject let eTitle:NSString = object.valueForKey("title")!.description let deTitle = eTitle.stringByDecodingHTMLEntities() cell.textLabel?.text = deTitle } Earlier, the stringByDecodingHTMLEntities() was missing....