SVG XML NSString to UIImage on background thread

Question

I want to display a UITableView full of SVG images. I get an xml string of the svg tag from the server and want to be able to paint the images inside a UITableViewCell on a background thread. My approach was to convert the svg to a UIImage and cache it, then load it into a UIImageView in the cell.

I've looked at SVGKit but there doesn't seem to be a way to create an SVGView from a string (only from a file currently), plus when I do the file store then retrieve for an SVGView, it's incredibly slow.

So does anyone know of a fast way to convert the SVG string to a UIImage on a background thread (outside of a drawRect function)?

Nicolò Ciraci Nicolò Ciraci · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-03T15:01:28

Have you already tried to get an NSData object with the SVG string content, then use - (id)initWithData:(NSData *)data to get the image?

SVG XML NSString to UIImage on background thread

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