I can't wrap my head around how apps with any kind of advanced animation could work. I mean Windows Phone 8.1 has decent animations, you can do translations, sc

I can't wrap my head around how apps with any kind of advanced animation could work. I mean Windows Phone 8.1 has decent animations, you can do translations, scales, rotates etc but it has no kind of transition effects or bitmap effects at all. At least ios seems to rely quite heavily on that kind of stuff...