Marker Disappear Animation

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Lack of ability to animate out a marker

Describe the solution you'd like

Offer a .disappearAnimation allowing for the animated removal of a marker

Describe alternatives you've considered

Manually animating layer via CATransaction, CAKeyframeAnimation both of which don't appear to have an effect?

Additional context

Is there a way to animate the removal of a GMSMarker?

I've been reading through add/remove documentation and came across the appearAnimation property which provides what I"m looking for for the addition of a marker.

Use Case:
In our use case, we tend to add new annotations as well remove annotations from screen to maintain performance and provide focus on new content. The problem we're running into is when we remove annotations, its not animated. Placed alongside the animated introduction of new markers, the end user experience is weird.

Is there a way to offer: .disappearAnimation?

Or suggest a way to perform our own animations? So far I had attempting interacting with the layer/opacity direction with a UIView.animate(duration:animation:completion), as well as a CATransaction + CAKeyframeAnimation "transform.scale", both being unsuccessful at animating out the markers.

I would be very grateful for any guidance for how to approach.