Stop exporting dozens of PNGs for your Android app -- this extension adds a new save as type for Android vector images. Once installed, select save as or save a copy, and you should see a type called Android VectorDrawable (*.xml) in the dropdown list.
Copyright (C) 2017 Owen Tosh
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Copy the files androidvector.py and androidvector.imx to your extensions directory. Reload Inkscape, and the new save type should be available.
- Currently, this extension only works with paths and groups. All other objects will need to be converted to paths before saving the document; otherwise, they will not be represented in the vector image.
- Android vectors do not support gradients. The extension will attempt to use one of the gradient colors instead.
- Android vectors have slightly different opacity implementations. Inkscape has three opacity values for paths: stroke, fill, and overall. Android has no overall opacity, so this is combined with the stroke and fill opacities.
- Android Studio has a function to reformat code. If you need to modify any attributes in Android Studio, you can reformat the XML to make things easier on yourself.
- Scientific notation does not work in certain versions of Android. Updated to resize the viewbox, and eliminate very small values (e.g.
8.675309e-17becomes0.0).
- Initial version
- Currently only supports saving the entire document. Would be helpful to migrate this extension to a more export-like tool, which would allow for exporting just a selection.
- Currently only supports groups and paths. Would be helpful to automatically attempt to convert objects to paths before processing.
- XML formatting isn't the greatest. Would be helpful to add newlines and spaces between tag attributes.