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In UIView, there is a method called prepareForInterfaceBuilder, which does exactly what it says on the tin – override the method to set properties only relevant in Interface Builder. Luckily, that exists, as I found out later. What I needed was a way to set a property, but only from within Interface Builder.

Make the property This only works with relatively simple values though (strings, numbers, colors), and it has the same problem as the above.

This is a bit dangerous though forget to reset or unset this property at runtime and your user will be stuck with some default placeholder, or worse, flat-out wrong information.

Set a default value, to be overridden at runtime.

One case I had to deal with is an UIView that can draw a selection of StyleKit images, depending on the value of a dynamic model value. I considered a few options to deal with that: Let’s make it Xebia purple, to please the boss Save the file, then export it to your xcode project in the language of your choice. Add a frame around it, and set the constraints to variable so it will adjust to the size of the frame (drag the frame corners around within PaintCode to confirm). Let’s draw a nice envelope or email icon.

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I will also go into setting colors, and finally about how to deal with views that depend on dynamic runtime data to draw themselves.įirst, let’s create a simple graphic in PaintCode. In this blog I will explain an effective and simple method to draw PaintCode graphics in a way where you can see what you’re doing in Interface Builder, using the relatively new annotation. Stylekit: Change the design of your app in seconds.

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With PaintCode you can create an app that is truly resolution-independent, using code (instead of large number of image assets) to draw a user interface.

One thing that I personally struggled with for a while now was how to use them effectively in combination with Interface Builder, the UI development tool for iOS and OSX apps. PaintCode is a vector drawing app that instantly generates Objective-C, Swift and C drawing code. The benefits of this are vastly reduced app installation size – no need to include three resolutions of the same image for every image – and seamlessly scalable graphics.

Every self-respecting iOS developer should know about PaintCode by now, an OSX app for drawing graphics that don’t save as images, but as lengths of code that draw graphics.