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How To Make A Simple Drawing App with UIKit and Swift

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Learn how to make your own drawing app, including different colors and brushes, using UIKit and Core Graphics in this tutorial!

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/1934-how-to-make-a-simple-drawing-app-with-uikit-and-swift
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Please tell is it really to do the drawing app in swift that could use textures for brush, marker, pencil.
I want that it has full functional drawing app . Is it real if true - tell me please were i can find the information

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Great tutorial. This was informative and really showed how you can do something cool - succinctly - by learning to use the frameworks. Fun, too!

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Hi. Thanks for the tutorial. If I have multiple tempImageViews (1,2,3) in the mainIamgeView which is scrollable. Then when I hit the share button can I export to the photos app the photos of all tempimageViews?

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How would I go about just drawing in a smaller UIView, for a signature box, for example?

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You can use UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum to save an image to the camera roll, i’m not sure but i guess you have to call this method for each tempImageView.

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You could write your own subclass of UIView and handle all the touchesBegan/Moved/Ended stuff in this subclass instead of the ViewController.

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Jean-Pierre,

Loved the tutorial. I have a real image (background image) instead of the empty mainImageView. Now when I start drawing (tempImageView → mainImageView) the mainImageView image becomes pixelated. Any ideas?

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Oh never mind, I did a work around - Instead of superimposing in the touches ended, I chose to superimpose when the user touches the share button. thanks.

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Hi, I wanna know if I use alpha=0.5 to make the drawing translucent, when 2 drawing has parts that overlap, how can I make the color not to overlap?

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Jean-Pierre,

I’d like to store the tempImage to file system, and save the path to core data. And then of course retrieve the tempImage. I tried to follow all sorts of tutorials but can’t figure it out. Could you please help me with this. Thanks so much!

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Hi. thanks for the tutorial. I’ve written code under this tutorial.
Now i want to add two buttons undo/redo. I found the solution on google and posts on stackoverflow (ios - Implementing redo alongside undo with UndoManager in drawing application Swift 3 - Stack Overflow) , but not yet.
Thank you very much for your help!

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When will this be updated for Swift 3.0?

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Hello, I updated the code for Swift 3.0 here: GitHub - dragosholban/DrawPad: Updated code for DrawPad tutorial published on raywenderlich.com

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This tutorial is more than six months old so questions are no longer supported at the moment for it. We will update it as soon as possible. Thank you! :]