https://github.com/StanKocken/SVG2Drawable

Use a jar executable to create a Drawable class to display a SVG on Android.
https://github.com/StanKocken/SVG2Drawable

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Use a jar executable to create a Drawable class to display a SVG on Android.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/StanKocken/SVG2Drawable
• Owner: StanKocken
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2014-12-26T20:05:22.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-11-23T16:09:35.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-22T10:04:30.215Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Java
• Size: 325 KB
• Stars: 201
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 23
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
SVG2Drawable

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Use a jar executable to create a Drawable class to display a SVG on Android.

This is a standalone library, not a Runtime Android library. You need to use it BEFORE your Android compilation (and only once per SVG file).

## Why?

I want to use a scalable image format.

A SVG sounds really good but it's a bit long to load (mainly the time to parse the XML) and I didn't find any library that support the Hardware acceleration.

## How does it work?

My main goal is to have a [Drawable](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/drawable/Drawable.html) class:

* Made a fork of the [svg-android](https://code.google.com/p/svg-android/) library.

* Replaced any instructions to create a [Picture](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Picture.html) to collect them into a Logger.

* Print this Logger.

* Save it to a Drawable java class.

## How to use it?

You can read the code but I'm not proud of it. I started to do a POC for a basic usage and now I need to transform the code to make it more readable and robust.

You can simply use the [jar provided into this repo](https://github.com/StanKocken/SVG2Drawable/blob/master/svg_converter.jar) by specify:

* the SVG file

* the package where you want to put the Drawable

* the drawable name

You can also specify the output of the script to create a file. By adding "> filename.java".

    java -jar svg_converter.jar example.svg com.skocken.svg.example.drawable ExampleDrawable > ExampleDrawable.java

Now, copy this "ExampleDrawable.java" into your Android project, into the package "com.skocken.svg.example.drawable" (from this example), and add it to your ImageView into your code with:

    imageview.setImageDrawable(new ExampleDrawable());

![diagram](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StanKocken/SVG2Drawable/master/svg_to_drawable.png)

## License

* [Apache 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)

## Contributing

If you found a SVG with a problem, you can open an issue. Please, if possible, let me know if this same SVG work with the library [svg-android](https://code.google.com/p/svg-android/).

Please fork this repository and contribute back using

[pull requests](https://github.com/StanKocken/SVG2Drawable/pulls).

Any contributions, large or small, major features, bug fixes, additional

language translations, unit/integration tests are welcomed and appreciated

but will be thoroughly reviewed and discussed.