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Mixing SpriteKit and UIKit?

	@miff Mar '20 Is it good or bad to mix these two? I don't mean placing Views over SKView, more like (for example: Clash Royale, Archero...) UITabBarController with some views (Shop, Battle, Acheivements...), where the Shop is classic collection view and battle is SpriteKit Scene? Thanks 3
	@nemecek-filip Mar '20 I mean why not if these is reason to. The SpriteKit scenes themselves are hosted in specialized UIViewControllers and since UITabBarController is just a container for other UIViewControllers, I dont see why it would be a bad idea to have SpriteKit scene on one tab and item shop on the second :-) 3
	@miff Mar '20 Yes, I have the same opinion. But i never find example or anything similar... Almost three months I develop some game (for client), and when we started to "mix", cpu, memory and energy rise up a lot. So I found on SO, some advices that is not good to mix... make no sense to me also... but it's always better to ask for second opinion :) 3
	@nemecek-filip Mar '20 To be honest I dont have much experience in SpriteKit but it should be very performant and I dont see better solution than to mix them. SpriteKit is great for games but for building UIs not so much. 4
	@Gakkienl HWS+ Mar '20 I think I might have to do something similar with my current project. I found Paul's Spritekit tutorials on Hacking with Swift very helpful and interesting ... It's also very easy to mix and match the two! 3
	@TheTwoNotes Mar '20 Agreed! Here's the link to Paul's video for reference: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/read/29/3/mixing-uikit-and-spritekit-uislider-and-skview 3

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