Director

The CCDirector is the component which takes care of going back and forth between scenes.

The CCDirector is a shared (singleton) object. It knows which scene is currently active, and it handles a stack of scenes to allow things like “scene calls” (pausing a Scene and putting it on hold while another enters, and then returning to the original). The CCDirector is the one who will actually change the CCScene, after a CCLayer has asked for push, replacement or end of the current scene.

The CCDirector is also responsible for initializing OpenGL ES.

Layers

A CCLayer has a size of the whole drawable area, and knows how to draw itself. It can be semi transparent (having holes and/or partial transparency in some/all places), allowing to see other layers behind it. Layers are the ones defining appearance and behavior, so most of your programming time will be spent coding CCLayer subclasses that do what you need.
The CCLayer is where you define event handlers. Events are propagated to layers (from front to back) until some layer catches the event and accepts it.
Although some serious apps will require you to define custom CCLayer classes, cocos2d provides a library of useful predefined layers (a simple menu layer: CCMenu, a color layer: CCColorLayer, a multiplexor between other layers: CCMultiplexLayer, and more ).

Layers can contain CCSprite objects, CCLabel objects and even other CCLayer objects as children.

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