
You don't get any more "best of both worlds" than this. Because of the performance impact of svg's on an app, when first run [or when the user changes appearance options, i like to save the newly generated bitmaps as pngs, if possible. Beginners usually have a hard time learning Adobe Photoshop. Although the yearly subscription is cheaper than the monthly plan, it is still considered expensive.
#Paintcode v photoshpe how to
While there sometimes are issues with various effects, these are minimal and easily avoided if you do some reading on how to avoid them. The photography combo is less costly than photoshop from the Adobe Creative Cloud, which costs about 10 and 20 monthly, respectively. Perfect corners, strokes and, best of all, you can use one asset for all the screen sizes, densities while, of course, no more transparent borders, wicked errors because 9patch won't stretch inward, so on and so forth. :)Įverything looks like it's been touched by baby Jesus. I wrote my own 9patch which uses vectors. Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. So I solved my problems by marrying the two. ** sad trumpet ** when put on a view, if i used some subtle round corners like 6px or 10px and a stroke everything looks awful at mdpi. I do everything right when exporting my artwork, i used to do my 9 patches with insane zoom on, maybe check afther that in photoshop for misplaced pixels. i am quite attentive when doing my artwork. whole area expand and fill the buttons width.
#Paintcode v photoshpe Patch
so this will make good your button.hope you got my point.:)Īfter making your image 9 patch and setting to button background. scale whole area, so t will not get blur. so what 9 - path tool do that you define that online scale some part of image let say if width is fill parent. if you set this image to button background it will scale completely and your image gets blur (mean t will expand to button width)and it will not look good. the center 'patch' will remain as is and the 'borders' patches will be stretched to fit the screen/view size.Īnd a button with fill parent width. > The advantage of using 9-patch images is that when using it as a background, for instance, the image won't stretch and loose proportions in different screen sizes.

In vector graphics all side are scale or stretch when we set it to any background whereas in 9-patch we can define which sides can scale or strech so at runtime only those side scale which we set it to scale in 9-patch tool. PaintCode is a unique vector drawing app that generates Objective-C or Swift code in real time, acting as a bridge between developers and graphic designers.
