Add CALayer as a sublayer and then animate

here's what i want to do: add a CALayer as a sublayer for the antoher layer, and then animate it immediately. The layer is added at a position outside of the current view and should "fly" into the view. This all happens in the UIViewController.

This is what my code looks like:

mysublayer.position = CGPointMake(-160.0, -250.0);
[self.view.layer addSublayer:mysublayer];   

[CATransaction begin]; // outer transaction
[CATransaction setValue:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:2.0f]
                 forKey:kCATransactionAnimationDuration];

mysublayer.position = CGPointMake(160.0, 250.0);
mysublayer.opacity = 1.0;

[CATransaction commit]; 

      

        
        
        
      

    

It happens that a sublayer immediately appears in a new position (160 250) without animation. I think I am doing something fundamental, and the moment I try to animate the layer, it is not added to the parent layer, right?

So, to wrap it, how do I animate the new sublevel after adding it to the parent layer?

Thanks and kind, Hans