Drawing incrementally in a UIView (iPhone)

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If you are only actually changing a small portion of the UIView’s content every time you draw (and the rest of the content generally stays the same), you can use this. Rather than redraw all the content of the UIView every single time, you can mark only the areas of the view that need redrawing using -[UIView setNeedsDisplayInRect:] instead of -[UIView setNeedsDisplay]. You also need to make sure that the graphics content is not cleared before drawing by setting view.clearsContextBeforeDrawing = YES;

Of course, all this also means that your drawRect: implementation needs to respect the rect parameter, which should then be a small subsection of your full view’s rect (unless something else dirtied the entire rect), and only draw in that portion.

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