Creating and displaying an SVG from a String

Question

I have a string that represents a svg.

<svg height="210" width="400"><path d="M150 0 L75 200 L225 200 Z" />

How can I turn this string into a Drawable, Bitmap or similar to display it in an imageview?

Try this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30923205/easiest-way-to-use-svg-in-android — Ankita, Jul 25 '18 at 09:51

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '18 at 12:49

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There are a few SVG libraries for Android you can choose. Each will do it slightly differently.

For AndroidSVG, you would do it like this:

SVG  svg = SVG.getFromString(myStringWithSvgInIt);
PictureDrawable  pd = new PictureDrawable(svg.renderToPicture());

myImageView.setImageDrawable(pd);

answered Jul 25 '18 at 12:49

Paul LeBeau

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thanks it works :D i have only add try catch at your answer. – Emiliano Spirito Aug 24 '18 at 07:48
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For those who are new to Android Studio and don't know how to install AndroidSVG: add `mavenCentral()` to `ProjectRoot/build.gradle` and add `implementation 'com.caverock:androidsvg-aar:1.4'` to `ProjectRoot/app/build.gradle` as explained [here](https://bigbadaboom.github.io/androidsvg/download.html) (where `ProjectRoot` is the root directory of your project), then sync Gradle (Android Studio will suggest doing so, just click on Sync Now), and then when you type `SVG` in your Java code Android Studio will suggest importing AndroidSVG just as if it were a build-in library. – Donald Duck Aug 10 '21 at 10:52

Creating and displaying an SVG from a String

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