I stumbled upon the same problem. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a possibility to make the splash screen work with just a vector drawable for pre API 23. The problem is you can’t load VectorDrawableCompat outside of the process, like in this case in your themes android:windowBackground. So what is likely happening here … Read more
This is exactly what you need. Credits to @emmaguy, the author of the post. I just added the full support of Support Library 23.4+, which enables you to stop generating pngs at runtime: // Gradle Plugin 2.0+ android { defaultConfig { vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true } } And if this line is set on your Activity’s … Read more
Android Studio’s Vector Asset Studio is currently not support all the features of SVG. You can convert SVG to VectorDrawable using this tool. Hope it helps.
When I had the same issue, I used the free online converter CloudConvert, to convert my SVG to another SVG, with marking their setting Text To Path to yes, where the converted SVG got opened in my Android Studio like a charm.
Update 2019: There is no need of using any external tool or Heck as pointed by older answers. Android Studio’s Asset Studio allows to convert SVG/ PSD to vectors Right click on app folder-> New Vector Asset Select second option in radio button to create vector from local file as shown in below image. Click … Read more
You can use Android Studio. Convert png to svg file online tools PNG to SVG For SVG color can use : <ImageButton android:layout_width=”48dp” android:layout_height=”48dp” android:id=”@+id/button” android:src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35401968/@drawable/ic_more_vert_24dp” android:tint=”@color/primary” /> Or imageView.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.black), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN); Can convert SVG to PNG online tool: coolutils Convert SVG to Android drawable: inloop
If you want to use vector drawables (less OR greater than API 21) just do the following: Set the image programmatically (e.g. in your activity): imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_left_arrow_blue); or by XML: app:srcCompat=”@drawable/your_vector_name” In your app’s build.gradle you need to include: android { defaultConfig { vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true } } And for vector support for less then API … Read more
Some things have changed since I asked this question, so I will answer it myself. With Support Library 23.4.0 the support for VectorDrawables from Ressources was reenabled: Android Support Library 23.4.0 available now You can find more information on that in this cast from the Google I/O 2016: What’s new in the support library – … Read more
It took 3 separate things for me to get this to work using support library 23.4.0: Add this to build.gradle defaultConfig { vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true } Add the following to onCreate of your Application class AppCompatDelegate.setCompatVectorFromResourcesEnabled(true); (From the reference of this link – “https://stackoverflow.com/a/45582033/10752962”) In API less then 21,use this line before setContentView(); For all … Read more
With the support library 23.2, the true support for Vector Drawables has been provided all the way down to API v7. It is recommended to disable the previous version of the support, which rendered PNG during build-time, by adding // Gradle Plugin 2.0+ android { defaultConfig { vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true } } to the build.gradle … Read more