In this mini Fragment we touch base on all the things you need to know about Vector drawables for Android development. How one can use it today, the recommended usage for vector drawable and formats, the limitations and everything else you need to know as an Android developer.

Show Notes

Vector Drawable [developer.android.com]
Trello's Victor [github.com]
- What's our Vector Victor [youtube.com]
Android Studio 1.4 release (with Vector Asset Studio announcement) [android-developers.blogspot.com]

Support library announcements

Android Support Library v23.2 [android-developers.blogspot.com]
- Vector Drawable backported
- Ian Lake also gives us the instructions in this post
9% of AAR saved on AppCompat [chris.banes.me]
Android Support v23.3.1 announced [plus.google.com]
Vector Asset Studio [developer.android.com]

Animated Vector Drawable

AnimatedVectorDrawable [developer.android.com]
Chiuki on Animated Vector Drawables [sqisland.com]
Road Runner library [github.com]
- see youtube demo [youtube.com]

Problems:

Dan Lew's SVG test project [github.com]
bug report on no gradient support for vectors [code.google.com]
Vector format restrictions : Vector Asset Studio [developer.android.com]
Better conversation tool svg2android - Juraj Novák [inloop.github.io]

Other references:

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