What's new in PaintCode 3?

1

Android


Finally, the droid you have been looking for!

Use PaintCode to turn your drawings into easy-to-use Android Java code. Perfect for drawing icons and custom UI elements.

You can even make your drawings animated or parametric.

2

Swift 5.0


PaintCode 3 added support for Swift 3, 4, and 5, fully compatible with Xcode 10, iOS 12, and macOS Mojave.

By carefully analyzing the Swift compiler and tailoring the generated code to it, we were able to improve the compilation speed by more than 150x in many common cases.

3

JavaScript


With PaintCode 3, you can now export JavaScript code that can be used to draw into <canvas> elements. Perfect for creating dynamic, interactive drawings such as the one on the left.

See the tutorial video to learn more.

4

Resizing Drawing Methods


All generated drawing methods now take 2 parameters - the target rectangle into which you wish to draw and the resizing behavior.

You can choose between ‘aspect fit’, ‘center’, ‘aspect fill’ and ‘stretch’ resizing behaviors.

class HouseView: UIView {
override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
        StyleKit.drawHouse(frame: self.bounds, resizing: .aspectFit)
}
}

To turn this feature on for your existing canvases, choose the
"Resizing: Using Method Parameters"
option from canvas attributes in the inspector.
Learn More ▸

5

Telekinesis


Imagine you could redesign your app in real time, while the app is actually running on a real device.

With PaintCode and Telekinesis, you can. Changes you make to your app's design in PaintCode are propagated in real time into your running app. Works like magic. See the video. Learn more ▸

6

Better Preview Window


Press Command+P to show the Preview window. When you work on some small detail in your drawing, you can set the Preview window to show you the big picture.

7

QuickLook


With our new QuickLook plugin, you can quickly peek into your PaintCode documents without launching the app. You can even preview multiple canvases from your document.

8

Opacity and Blend Mode for All Shapes


Use the Inspector set the opacity and blend mode for every shape.

9

Improved SVG Import & Export


Some drawing apps produce SVG documents that make heavy use of CSS. Importing these documents now works much better. We've also improved blend mode compatibility, both for imported and exported SVG documents.

10

More Improvements…

If you bought PaintCode 2 after June 1st, 2016, you are eligible for an upgrade to PaintCode 3 with a discount. Please contact us at support@pixelcut.com.