Are there any Android Drawable designers?

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Nathan picture Nathan · Feb 1, 2011 · Viewed 8.9k times · Source

I would like to use more vector drawings in my Android applications. Providing images isn't as space efficient or as scalable as I would like it to be.

Android provides a series of Drawable file formats, such as ShapeDrawable, which can be combined in a LayeredDrawable. To go very far down this path, it would be nice if there was a designer for visualizing the results, doing the drawing in, and handling all the resulting files.

C# WPF has Expression Blend, Adobe has Flash CS4, and the iPhone has Opacity. So my question is, is there a designer or drawing tool for Android?

Note: Other questions have talked about using SVG in Android. Android doesn't have native support for SVG, so the only way to do it is with an external library. I would like to avoid that and am asking for a developer side tool. An SVG to Drawable converter would be fine, but I'm not aware of one.

Answer

r3gis3r picture r3gis3r · Aug 7, 2011

I faced the same problem and I've just released a little library on github that allow to export svg to drawable more quickly.

https://github.com/r3gis3r/svg2drawable

Hope can be useful for you.

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