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A comment on PaintCode 2.

Re:PaintCode 2 by JRobertson on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @05:51PM (#7712850)
As someone who has fairly limited exposure to mobile application development I have to ask a basic question, what are the use cases for this tool?

I can tell that it turns vector into code, but why not just include the vector in the app?

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Re:PaintCode 2 by fatboy on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @07:38PM (#7713209)
From what I understand, there's a performance gain from doing the drawing directly.
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Re:PaintCode 2 by thought_alarm on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @08:10PM (#7713310)
Actually, there's a performance hit when drawing directly (via [UIView drawRect:])

The point of PaintCode is to allow dynamic manipulation of an image. If you don't need a dynamic image, the best option is a .png; second option is drawing once to a UIImage.

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