Drawing and Animating with UIView or CALayer?

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hello, i am trying to implement a graph which a uiview draws. There are 3 UIViews to animate a left/right slide. The problem is, that i can't cancel the UIView animation. So I replaced the UIViews by CALayer. Now, the question is if CALayer is appicable for this? Is it normal to draw on a CALayer like this? And why is a CALayer so slow when I manipulate the frame properties.

CGRect frame = curve.frame;
frame.origin.x -= diffX;
[curve setFrame:frame];

Is there a alternativ?

P.S. I am a german guy. Sorry for mistakes.

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