We’ve had gradient support in VectorDrawable since API 24 and I have written about them previously. In those articles I covered an problem importing sweep gradients because sweep gradients are not supported in SVG, which is a failing of SVG rather than any Android specifics. However there is another edge case which is supported in…
Tag: androiddev
Dynamic VectorDrawable Sizing
A few weeks ago I was chatting with Kaushik Gopal (half of the excellent Fragmented Podcast team) and he raised an interesting yet quite tricky question: Is there a recommended way of resizing VectorDrawables programmatically. I must confess that I did not know the answer to this but it struck me as a useful thing…
Image Decoder – Post Processing and Masks
The Android P developer preview contains a new ImageDecoder which is quite interesting and can do some useful things. At present it only appears within the Framework so we can only use it on devices running P or later, and I understand that if consists of a chunk of native code and so is unlikely…
ImageDecoder – Error Handling, Cropping, & Scaling
The Android P developer preview contains a new ImageDecoder which is quite interesting and can do some useful things. At present it only appears within the Framework so we can only use it on devices running P or later, and I understand that if consists of a chunk of native code and so is unlikely…
ImageDecoder – Animated GIF
The Android P developer preview contains a new ImageDecoder which is quite interesting and can do some useful things. At present it only appears within the Framework so we can only use it on devices running P or later, and I understand that if consists of a chunk of native code and so is unlikely…
ImageDecoder – Basics
The Android P developer preview contains a new ImageDecoder which is quite interesting and can do some useful things. At present it only appears within the Framework so we can only use it on devices running P or later, and I understand that if consists of a chunk of native code and so is unlikely…
Colour Wheel – Part 3
In Android Weekly issue # 297 there was a link to a library named ColorPickerPreference which I found interesting. One aspect of it was a colour picker which included a colour wheel but I was mildly disappointed to see that it did not include a mechanism of adjusting the brightness value, and was implemented using…
Colour Wheel – Part 2
In Android Weekly issue # 297 there was a link to a library named ColorPickerPreference which I found interesting. One aspect of it was a colour picker which included a colour wheel but I was mildly disappointed to see that it did not include a mechanism of adjusting the brightness value, and was implemented using…
Colour Wheel – Part 1
In Android Weekly issue # 297 there was a link to a library named ColorPickerPreference which I found interesting. One aspect of it was a colour picker which included a colour wheel but I was mildly disappointed to see that it did not include a mechanism of adjusting the brightness value, and was implemented using…
Kotlin: Mutability
Kotlin is a very rich language with much subtlety tucked away. In this occasional series (meaning that there will be occasional, standalone posts covering distinct areas) we’ll explore some of these subtleties. In this post we’ll take a look at mutability.