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I was knocking around in SwiftUI last weekend and disappointed to learn that there’s still no native support for SVGs — you're either stuck converting SVG to NSBezierPath, or taking your chances with 3rd-party libraries that come with a laundry list of caveats.

The documents don't mention if their engine is suitable for "dropping in" to the Cocoa/CocoaTouch/NSwhatever system, but gosh, that would be a heck of a treat…

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Doesn't sound like so. But I imagine it's always possible to use WKWebView to use the new engine once it lands.

You can use SVGs as vector images though. Before that only PDFs were supported for that role.

Are you aware of any resources that explain how? I can see that iOS can use SVGs for icon assets and the like, but not in views.

I meant image assets, yes. If you want to dig into vector data, then no, there's no support for that.

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