SVGParser // The actual method // width and height corresponds to the final dimensions of the resulting bitmap // The stream instance is the flag SVG file to use public static Bitmap GetFlagGuyWithFlagStream ( Android. Then in code, you can reference your SVG with _svg_name.įollowing is the code I use to composite the two SVGs together, you really just have to use one type from the library to work with your graphics: // At the top using SVGParser = Org. Put the resulting SVG under a new folder called for instance raw under Resources. That will bring a dialog with several optimizations, I use this kind of combination: In Inkscape, open up the SVG and be sure to save them as Optimized SVG so that they have the maximum compatibility with the library: Notice that the flag bearer has a gradient rectangle placeholder where the flag will appear so that we can create a shadow effect when we composite the two images together. In one of my project, I’m using two SVG images that I need to composite together in a single bitmap. You can download the project structure ready to include into your solution as a zip file here. To use that support from Mono for Android, I cooked up a jar using code from svg-android and AndEngine which I then simply imported into a Mono for Android Binding project. One of the main advantage of SVG is that it has great editors like Inkscape.
Thankfully, people have developped librairies that are able to load SVG and map it to Android’s Picture API.
The downside is that you now have to produce and maintain several version of the same graphic to accomodate this system.Ī good way to avoid this problem is to use vector-based graphics to dynamically generate bitmap drawable that are suited to the screen size and density but unfortunately Android only support it’s own bitmap-that-can-extend-itself format called 9-patch which works great for buttons but is a bit limiting for anything else. (Side note: if you don’t want your bitmaps to be altered due to that, put them in a drawable-nodpi directory). Of course when we talk about pixels, the main problem arise with the use of bitmap-based drawable which need to be tailored to the kind of device you are running on.Īndroid makes it a bit easier by defining a set of density “standards” in the form of a different suffix for your drawable directory.
Technically, this would mean that as a developper you would need to run your app on a large enough device subset having a triplet of these parameters to ensure everything looks good. Since it would be too easy, each of these devices usually sports its own combination of screen size, resolution and pixel density. One of the aspect of Android development is that your application ultimately run on a plethora of different devices.
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