So I have a drawable that I am using in my project - it is a .png file I created using Aseprite, and I have quite a few of them. Some of the first ones I added seem to not be flagged as debug only, but many of the later ones are tagged as such. Attached is an example image of what I am talking about - is there any way to change the image to be available in release as well?
You added the drawable to use only in debug mode.Move that image to drawable root. Or Refactor > Move file and change the directory as follows (base directory of Drawable)
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I am having a rather annoying scenario where I work with a lot of drawable shapes, many of which are slightly changed variants of others. The annoying thing is, when I paste the drawable, it automatically defaults to a random resource folder. See bellow photo. I want it to go directly to the standard drawable folder, not some other density drawable folders without having to manually change the folder every single time.
Is this even possible?
You can change the View from Android to Project if you are copying & pasting multiple images in a row. You can simply paste it to the drawable folder.
I know i can use my own svg as icons by browsing them from the asset studio but it just show the name not the exact icon of the svg, i can't know just by name what that icon is look like , so can i view them while adding them to project like they are showing in below image?
I have many icon on my computer can i add them to that list , so that i can see them visually when i want to add a new vector asset.
I tend to think that it can be done because then icons which android asset studio is shows must be stored in a directory from where it pulls when when i open asset stdio , if i can add my svg to that directory then android studio may may also pull them too with default clip arts and they may also show up in asset studio, does anyone know what that directory is , or any other way of doing this.
Note android studio does not give such option via UI
When you add a new vector asset (assuming you've added it in the drawable directory), it gets added in the drawable directory.
It is generally saved by the name ic_thatSVGname. So it gets the prefix IC. So please browse in the drawable directory and you will find your vector asset.
Then double click on it so that it opens and you can see the preview on right side of the screen. It it doesn't, just click the PREVIEW button which also reside on the right side of the Android Studio.
So that means just search for that in drawable directory. And while adding new vector assets, right click on the DRAWABLE DIRECTORY only so that it gets into that directory else it might end up outside it.
Have a look at this Gist.
Above gist creates a drawable which looks like this:
Clearly in the gist, pathData property has been provided coordinates. How is this achieved, I mean, ofcourse someone doesn't found each point according to his needs.
My question : How is this achieved? Is there any tool present to do so?
Drawable like this reduces app size by avoiding to have an image instead. Also, there are questions for drawables in XML like this, this and many more but I think my Question is very different (and useful, probably).
You can design your SVG files using some tools such as Android Vector Asset Studio
Usually people don't write the SVG paths themselves, they use a tool or an editor where they sketch the drawing and generate the file.
What you have to do is to create a SVG image using an SVG editor such as Inkscape (the one I use)
or if you want a more professional (and expensive) editor you can use Adobe Illustrator. You can even use a tool called svg-edit which is accessible in the browser.
After creating your required art, save your SVG file.
Next goto and open Android Studio.
Right click on the res folder (any folder where drawables are usually placed)
Select New > Vector Asset. This opens the following window.
Select local file
Edit the path to direct it to the location of your svg file
Depending on the complexity of your image, errors may be thrown (not all svg elements get converted to xml. Hence, avoid using complex art in svg, use raster images in that case).
Android studio does some fixes on its own. So even if errors are thrown, if your image renders fine, then you are good to go.
Click Next > adjust a few more settings > Click Finish
Your xml vector asset has been created successfully.
Note:
To ensure backward compatibility, add the following to your build.gradle
android{
defaultConfig{
vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
}
}
dependencies{
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.2.0'
}
Hope this has helped you.
For more info see the official documentation.
I have just started the Treehouse Android development course, I have also asked this question on their forums without any luck.
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AndroidStudio v 1.2.2, the course is based on v0.86 I think
OS / DE: Manjaro Linux, KDE
I have copied the image files inside the drawable folder, each into their specific dpi folder.
I have created the ImageView for a mail_title.png, and added the src as the full path to the png. When I do that, the image loads into the preview screen, and I can work with it, but If I try to build the app it just says the value of src cannot be a string.
So then I tried to point to it as a resource. On many forums and the android documentation I only found that I should reference it through a "pointer" #drawable/main_title , when I downloaded the projectfiles from the course I saw thats how they did it too.
If I try to rebuild now it gives the following error:
Error:(14, 22) No resource found that matches the given name (at 'src' with value '#drawable/main_title').
Then I tried to create a resource inside strings.xml, I found some autocomplete function that pointed me in "the right direction", of course it did not work!, same error as before. I have tried using absolute paths as well without luck.
Right now It shows R as "cannot resolve symbol R" in the MAinActivity file. I figured out by reading online that this is due to my drawable not existing problem.
Then I created a refs.xml in values and added
main_title.png
I actually tried with and without the extension (png)
After that I clicked on the IDE suggestion to create a drawable folder and it just created a #drawable folder inside of layout....
Basically it says it cannot resolve directory #drawable from activity_main.xml
and also
Error:(3, 33) String types not allowed (at 'main_title' with value 'main_title.png'). on the refs.xml file (this happens whether I use the extension (png) or not.
The only solution I have found is to just copy one version fo the images to the main drawables folder, and deleting all of the subfolders, if I don't delte them then it also doesn't work...
So, as you can see I'm kinda lost... Any help would be appreciated. I'm a python backend developer and I'm pretty comfortable usiong Pycharm (IntelliJ for python), but somehow I feel Android Studio has me totally lost!
So, in case anyone wonders, I solved it following both Cris and Rob advices. I installed appcompat v7 and put my img resources (png,jpd, etc) directly inside my drawable folder. Then I created a folder for each dpi resolution inside the res folder, NOT inside the drawable folder.
I use eclipse but i think its pretty much the same, you should have you various drawable folders, then you have to include the R (res folder)
import com.example.project.R;
and then call them by reference
R.drawables.main_title
Note you dont need to specify which drawable folder , adroid does that for you.
Also if you are getting unresolved errors with R then you may need to have the appcompatv7 library inlcuded in your project.
I used the freely available Simple 9patch generator available online, to generate a logo for my app's splash screen.
But how do I place it in Android Studio drawable folder?
Do I have to make separate drawable folders like ldpi, hdpi etc?
I tried that but when I try to set the image on a layout, it gives me an error saying
Cannot resolve symbol #drawable/something
You need to make sure, you have place the images in the correct folder. Here's an example,
Original post: Add 9-patch image to Android Studio
Get rid of the .9 in #drawable/splash.9. It is just #drawable/splash. .9.png is the file extension, and file extensions are not used in references to resources.