What I'm trying to do
Suppose that I have a Vector Drawable XML file hosted somewhere on the web. I want to display that image resource in my app using either Glide or Picasso, would that be possible?
What have I tried so far
I've seen this question and it seems to be possible to do it "manually". I also know that it's possible to load rasterized images. But I wonder if there's a way to do it like:
Glide.with(activity)
.load(vectorDrawableUrl)
.into(imageView)
Or even:
Picasso.get()
.load(vectorDrawableUrl)
.into(imageView)
From my initial tests, it didn't work. Glide started to pop some random errors, like:
W/Glide: Load failed for https://path.to.url/ic_key.xml with size [420x420]
class com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.GlideException: Failed to load resource
There were 8 causes:
java.io.IOException(java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSourceCallback failed: status = 0x80000000)
java.io.IOException(java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSourceCallback failed: status = 0x80000000)
java.io.IOException(java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSource failed: status = 0x80000000)
java.io.IOException(java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSource failed: status = 0x80000000)
java.io.IOException(java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSourceCallback failed: status = 0x80000000)
java.io.IOException(java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSourceCallback failed: status = 0x80000000)
java.io.IOException(java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSource failed: status = 0x80000000)
java.io.IOException(java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSource failed: status = 0x80000000)
And with Picasso I got:
D/skia: --- Failed to create image decoder with message 'unimplemented'
D/skia: --- Failed to create image decoder with message 'unimplemented'
D/skia: --- Failed to create image decoder with message 'unimplemented'
Am I missing something?
Update
It seems that those vector drawables are transformed with AAPT, and that might make things more difficult (or even impossible). Perhaps that's why I was unable to load the files directly.
