Compare method

Either you implement a compare-method for your object:

- (NSComparisonResult)compare:(Person *)otherObject {
    return [self.birthDate compare:otherObject.birthDate];
}

NSArray *sortedArray = [drinkDetails sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(compare:)];

NSSortDescriptor (better)

or usually even better:

NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor;
sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"birthDate"
                                           ascending:YES];
NSArray *sortedArray = [drinkDetails sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:@[sortDescriptor]];

You can easily sort by multiple keys by adding more than one to the array. Using custom comparator-methods is possible as well. Have a look at the documentation.

Blocks (shiny!)

There's also the possibility of sorting with a block since Mac OS X 10.6 and iOS 4:

NSArray *sortedArray;
sortedArray = [drinkDetails sortedArrayUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(Person *a, Person *b) {
    return [a.birthDate compare:b.birthDate];
}];

Performance

The -compare: and block-based methods will be quite a bit faster, in general, than using NSSortDescriptor as the latter relies on KVC. The primary advantage of the NSSortDescriptor method is that it provides a way to define your sort order using data, rather than code, which makes it easy to e.g. set things up so users can sort an NSTableView by clicking on the header row.

I know this question has long been answered, but I don't quite think this is a good case for CAShapeLayer and CAKeyframeAnimation. Core Animation has the power to do animation tweening for us. Here's a class (with a wrapping UIView, if you like) that I use to accomplish the effect pretty well.

The layer subclass enables implicit animation for the progress property, but the view class wraps its setter in a UIView animation method. The interesting (and ultimately useful) side effect of using a 0.0 length animation with UIViewAnimationOptionBeginFromCurrentState is that each animation cancels out the previous one, leading to a smooth, fast, high-framerate pie, like this (animated) and this (not animated, but incremented).

DZRoundProgressView.h

@interface DZRoundProgressLayer : CALayer

@property (nonatomic) CGFloat progress;

@end

@interface DZRoundProgressView : UIView

@property (nonatomic) CGFloat progress;

@end

DZRoundProgressView.m

#import "DZRoundProgressView.h"
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

@implementation DZRoundProgressLayer

// Using Core Animation's generated properties allows
// it to do tweening for us.
@dynamic progress;

// This is the core of what does animation for us. It
// tells CoreAnimation that it needs to redisplay on
// each new value of progress, including tweened ones.
+ (BOOL)needsDisplayForKey:(NSString *)key {
    return [key isEqualToString:@"progress"] || [super needsDisplayForKey:key];
}

// This is the other crucial half to tweening.
// The animation we return is compatible with that
// used by UIView, but it also enables implicit
// filling-up-the-pie animations.
- (id)actionForKey:(NSString *) aKey {
    if ([aKey isEqualToString:@"progress"]) {
        CABasicAnimation *animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:aKey];
        animation.fromValue = [self.presentationLayer valueForKey:aKey];
        return animation;
    }
    return [super actionForKey:aKey];
}

// This is the gold; the drawing of the pie itself.
// In this code, it draws in a "HUD"-y style, using
// the same color to fill as the border.
- (void)drawInContext:(CGContextRef)context {
    CGRect circleRect = CGRectInset(self.bounds, 1, 1);

    CGColorRef borderColor = [[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor];
    CGColorRef backgroundColor = [[UIColor colorWithWhite: 1.0 alpha: 0.15] CGColor];

    CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, backgroundColor);
    CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, borderColor);
    CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 2.0f);

    CGContextFillEllipseInRect(context, circleRect);
    CGContextStrokeEllipseInRect(context, circleRect);

    CGFloat radius = MIN(CGRectGetMidX(circleRect), CGRectGetMidY(circleRect));
    CGPoint center = CGPointMake(radius, CGRectGetMidY(circleRect));
    CGFloat startAngle = -M_PI / 2;
    CGFloat endAngle = self.progress * 2 * M_PI + startAngle;
    CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, borderColor);
    CGContextMoveToPoint(context, center.x, center.y);
    CGContextAddArc(context, center.x, center.y, radius, startAngle, endAngle, 0);
    CGContextClosePath(context);
    CGContextFillPath(context);

    [super drawInContext:context];
}

@end

@implementation DZRoundProgressView
+ (Class)layerClass {
    return [DZRoundProgressLayer class];
}

- (id)init {
    return [self initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 37.0f, 37.0f)];
}

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
    if ((self = [super initWithFrame:frame])) {
        self.opaque = NO;
        self.layer.contentsScale = [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale];
        [self.layer setNeedsDisplay];
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)setProgress:(CGFloat)progress {
    [(id)self.layer setProgress:progress];
}

- (CGFloat)progress {
    return [(id)self.layer progress];
}

@end