Easiest way to use SVG in Android

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I have found a myriad of libraries in order to use svg in Android and avoid the frustrating creation of different resolutions and dropping files for each resolution  this becomes very annoying when the app has many icons or images   Can anyone be as kind to give a step by step process of the simplest to use library for using SVG in Android  I m sure this will help many others too   Also I use Android Studio and Illustrator for generating my icons and images

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1 Right Click On drawable directory then go to new then go to vector assets 2 change asset type from clip art to local 3 browse your file 4 give size 5 then click next then done  Your usable svg will be generated in drawable directory

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First you need to import svg files by following simple steps    Right click on drawable Click new Select Vector Asset   If image is available in your computer then select local svg file  After that select the image path and an option to change the size of the image is also available at the right side of dialog if you want to   in this way svg image is imported in your project After that for using this image use the same procedure   drawable yourimagename

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You can use Coil library to load svg  Just add these lines in build gradle        Coil  https   github com coil-kt coil  implementation  quot io coil-kt coil 0 12 0 quot   implementation  quot io coil-kt coil-svg 0 12 0 quot    Then Add an extension function fun AppCompatImageView loadSvg url  String        val imageLoader   ImageLoader Builder this context           componentRegistry   add SvgDecoder this loadSvg context              build        val request   ImageRequest Builder this context           crossfade true           crossfade 500           data url           target this           build        imageLoader enqueue request     Then call this method in your activity or fragment your image view loadSvg  quot your file name svg quot

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UPDATE  DO NOT use this old answer  better use this   https   stackoverflow com a 39266840 4031815   Ok after some hours of research I found svg-android to be quite easy to use  so I m leaving here step by step instructions    download lib from  https   code google com p svg-android downloads list Latest version at the moment of writing this is  svg-android-1 1 jar Put jar in lib dir  Save your   svg file in res drawable dir  In illustrator is as easy as pressing Save as and select svg  Code the following in your activity using the svg library   ImageView imageView    ImageView  findViewById R id imgView   SVG svg   SVGParser getSVGFromResource getResources    R drawable example     The following is needed because of image accelaration in some devices such as samsung imageView setLayerType View LAYER TYPE SOFTWARE  null   imageView setImageDrawable svg createPictureDrawable          You can reduce boilerplate code like this  Very easy I made a simple class to contain past code and reduce boilerplate code  like this   import android app Activity  import android view View  import android widget ImageView   import com larvalabs svgandroid SVG  import com larvalabs svgandroid SVGParser   public class SvgImage        private static ImageView imageView      private Activity activity      private SVG svg      private int xmlLayoutId      private int drawableId        public SvgImage Activity activity  int layoutId  int drawableId            imageView    ImageView  activity findViewById layoutId           svg   SVGParser getSVGFromResource activity getResources    drawableId             Needed because of image accelaration in some devices such as samsung         imageView setLayerType View LAYER TYPE SOFTWARE  null           imageView setImageDrawable svg createPictureDrawable               Now I can call it like this in activity       SvgImage rainSVG   new SvgImage MainActivity this  R id rainImageView  R drawable rain       SvgImage thunderSVG   new SvgImage MainActivity this  R id thunderImageView  R drawable thunder       SvgImage oceanSVG   new SvgImage MainActivity this  R id oceanImageView  R drawable ocean       SvgImage fireSVG   new SvgImage MainActivity this  R id fireImageView  R drawable fire       SvgImage windSVG   new SvgImage MainActivity this  R id windImageView R drawable wind       SvgImage universeSVG   new SvgImage MainActivity this  R id universeImageView R drawable universe

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you need to convert SVG to XML to use in android project    1 1 you can do this with this site  http   inloop github io svg2android   but it does not support all the features of SVG like some gradients   1 2 you can convert via android studio but it might use some features that only supports API 24 and higher that cuase crashe your app in older devices   and add vectorDrawables useSupportLibrary   true in gradle file and use like this    lt android support v7 widget AppCompatImageView                 android layout width  match parent                  android layout height  match parent                  app srcCompat   drawable ic item1    gt     use this library https   github com MegatronKing SVG-Android  that supports these features   https   github com MegatronKing SVG-Android blob master support doc md   add this code in application class   public void onCreate         SVGLoader load this      and use the SVG like this      lt ImageView     android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android src   drawable ic android red   gt

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Try the SVG2VectorDrawable Plugin  Go to Preferences- Plugins- Browse Plugins and install SVG2VectorDrawable  Great for converting sag files to vector drawable  Once you have installed you will find an icon for this in the toolbar section just to the right of the help     icon

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Android Studio supports SVG from 1 4 onwards  Here is a video on how to import

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Rather than adding libraries which increases your apk size  I will suggest you to convert Svg to drawable using http   inloop github io svg2android    and add vectorDrawables useSupportLibrary   true in gradle

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