How do I animate changing the border colour of a UITextField?

Question

I infer from this question that the following should animate the colour change of my UITextField's border:

        [UIView animateWithDuration:5.0f animations:^() {
            myUITextField.layer.borderColor = [UIColor greenColor].CGColor;
        }];

But it doesn't, the border changes colour instantly. Is it obvious what I'm doing wrong?

Update: Ok, so trying the following implicit animation :

        [CATransaction begin];
        [CATransaction setValue:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:5.0f] forKey:kCATransactionAnimationDuration];
            myUITextField.layer.borderColor = [UIColor greenColor].CGColor;
        [CATransaction commit];

And that doesn't animate either, same effect: it changes colour instantly (as an aside, where's the default for kCATransactionAnimationDuration for layer.borderColor documented?)

Answer 1

I believe that CALayer properties are not animatable in a UIView animation block. You would need to set up a CABasicAnimation and add that animation to the layer instead.