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Nick Butcher @crafty
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About to present Draw me a Rainbow: advanced VectorDrawable rendering. Watch live: 📹🔴 ✏️🌈
Tint vectors with theme colors to use a single asset on differently themed screens.
Fill or stroke individual paths with theme colors so that drawables adapt to the current theme.
Use ColorStateLists to respond to different states like pressed or selected.
Vectors support linear, radial and sweep gradients for both fills and strokes.
Remember that vector paths support transforms like scale and rotation which you can combine with gradients to create different effects, like the shadow here:
You can control the color stops in a gradient to create different effects, like this rainbow drawn with a single radial gradient.
Create pattern effects by playing with tile modes.This loading spinner also is a single shape with a striped pattern gradient. gist.github.com/nickbutcher/1e…
So those are some advanced features of VectorDrawables, all supported back to API14 via AndroidX. They’re extremely powerful & flexible; helping you to create sharp, svelte apps. Remember that as they’re vectors, they're animatable like this awesome illustration by @VPoltrack
…and here's how this AVD is made: gist.github.com/nickbutcher/77…
Recording of the talk is now up:
#AndroidDevSummit
#AndroidDev
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