If you’re using Android Studio, the best method is: Right-click on your ‘drawable’ folder > New > Vector Asset Click ‘Local SVG file’ to import your own SVG file, or ‘Material Icon’ to use the supplied icons. Change the resource name to whatever you need it to be. Click Next and choose your target modules … Read more
Ok, so you can convert PNG to Android vector drawable following these steps Step 1: Convert PNG to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) https://www.autotracer.org/ Or you can use any online converter of your choice Step 2: Use the generated SVG in step 1 and convert it to Android vector drawable using this link http://inloop.github.io/svg2android/ http://a-student.github.io/SvgToVectorDrawableConverter.Web/ Alternatively … Read more
Documentation about Vector Graphics says: Android 4.4 (API level 20) and lower doesn’t support vector drawables. With Support Library you have backward-compatibility using the attribute app:srcCompat, but it is not backported for android:drawableRight. The solution is to keep using .PNG files for those cases or try to set it by code.
Update 2: They have added an option to enable it again in Support Library 23.4.0: For AppCompat users, we’ve added an opt-in API to re-enable support Vector Drawables from resources (the behavior found in 23.2) via AppCompatDelegate.setCompatVectorFromResourcesEnabled() – keep in mind that this still can cause issues with memory usage and problems updating Configuration instances, … Read more
The viewportWidth and viewPortHeight define the area of the document that the content of the VectorDrawable is drawn within. They are equivalent to the width and height fields of an SVG viewBox. Research how an SVG viewBox works if you need further explanation. So imagine your shape is a rectangle that is 100 wide and … Read more
Got this problem too when loading vectors from a selector on pre-lollipop devices: Use AppCompatDelegate.setCompatVectorFromResourcesEnabled(true) in your onCreate method: Sets whether vector drawables on older platforms (< API 21) can be used within android.graphics.drawable.DrawableContainer resources. When enabled, AppCompat can intercept some drawable inflation from the framework, which enables implicit inflation of vector drawables within android.graphics.drawable.DrawableContainer … Read more
Here is my IDEA plugin : VectorPathTweaker With this you can easily translate, scale, flip and transpose standard android vector drawables. For installation you need to search for ‘VectorPathTweaker’ on the plugin market. tips: you can tweak the values by scrolling the mouse wheel.
You cannot use Vector Drawables in any other views except ImageView in pre-lollipop. Please see this SO Answer by google developer advocate. For AppCompat users, we’ve decided to remove the functionality which let you use vector drawables from resources on pre-Lollipop devices due to issues found in the implementation in version 23.2.0/23.2.1 [ https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=205236, https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=204708 … Read more
In your module build.gradle file, you need to add this line: apply plugin: ‘com.android.application’ android { … defaultConfig { … vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true // This line here } … } …
The color of the whole vector can be changed using setTint. You have to set up your ImageView in your layout file as this: <ImageView android:id=”@+id/myImageView” android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:tint=”@color/my_nice_color” android:src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35625099/@drawable/ic_my_drawable” android:scaleType=”fitCenter” /> Then to change the color of your image: DrawableCompat.setTint(myImageView.getDrawable(), ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.another_nice_color)); Note: myImageView.getDrawable() gives nullpointerexception if the vector drawable is set to the … Read more