Since VectorDrawable is only in Android 5.0+, and one would presumably use plain old raster drawables before then, I came up with a scheme.
I put face.png in drawable-nodpi. I put face.xml in drawable-v21 Then, when I need the drawable in my custom view, I call. Drawable drawFace =getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.face); I sure thought I was clever. So of course, this will retrieve a VectorDrawable if it is running on Android 5.0 or later, and a BitmapDrawable if it is running on 4.4 or earlier, right? Nope. I debugged on a Nexus 9. The type of the returned Drawable was BitmapDrawable. To add to the mystery, I debugged on Android Wear device with Android 5.0 The drawable comes up as a VectorDrawable, just as I wanted. Why wouldn't that happen on a tablet with Android 5.0? The targetSDK is 21. The BuildTools version is 21.1.1. The minimum SDK is 17. The VectorDrawable class has only a default constructor. I don't know how to force a VectorDrawable to load if I went that route. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
