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Why is this implemented as an Illustrator plugin, rather than just a SVG to draw call converter that can be implemented in the build system? Or just a SVG reader in the final app?

Doing it this way seems to be encouraging people to paste in the code and then lose the original SVG, leading to pain later.

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For those wanting Objective-C, Swift or C#, PaintCode [1] seems to support SVG conversion.

[1] http://www.paintcodeapp.com/

another option is just keep the assets as SVG's and use a library to do the conversion (ios/osx specifically, I personally use SVGKit - https://github.com/SVGKit/SVGKit )

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