Re: [android-developers] SVG Library

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:25 AM, rael_yoni <yoni.stoffman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I might be missing something altogether, is there alternative to SVG that
> android support natively?

ShapeDrawable, but it is a tiny subset of SVG.

> With all the hard work that android dev tools puts
> into supporting different form factors and resolutions there suppose to be a
> simple 2D vector library?!

Android is designed to run on devices an order of magnitude slower
than the current crop of smartphones. They deemed that vector graphics
would be too slow to render.

Bear in mind that Google has released an SVG library for Android:

http://code.google.com/p/svg-android/

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