Glide: SVG With Glide SvgSoftwareLayerSetter need to be added separately?

[anoop4real]

Hi,

I am trying to load an SVG from web using Glide (Kotlin), below is the gradle file

dependencies {
implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.5.0'
kapt 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.5.0'
}

I am using Generated API, I am able to get GlideApp but I am not sure how to get SvgSoftwareLayerSetter? do i need import those java files separately? wont things work out of the box with GlideApp?

    GlideApp.with(this)
            .`as`(PictureDrawable::class.java)
            .placeholder(R.drawable.image_loading)
            .error(R.drawable.image_error)
            .transition(withCrossFade())
            .listener(SvgSoftwareLayerSetter()) <---- Getting unresolved symbol error here

[sjudd]

Those files are from a sample app, they're not provided by the main library. The sample app is here: https://github.com/bumptech/glide/tree/master/samples/svg. Glide doesn't officially support SVG.

[anoop4real]

Hi,
The sample app do display svg right? I have seen that the file is from the sample app, that's how I know SvgSoftwareLayerSetter exists......what I was trying to do was to implement this in Kotlin, and wanted to know whether all those Svg java classes are a must requirement and need to be imported to Kotlin.

[sjudd]

Ah @TWiStErRob might be able to comment better. I'm not sure if the SVG software layer setter is still a requirement, it probably is?

[TWiStErRob]

It's not a necessity to use those classes if you implement the functionality in a different way. e.g. you can set the software layer in layout XML. You can try hardware accelerated SVG rendering, but it probably won't work, see class comment. I haven't checked the latest library version though.

Decoder/transcoder/module is the recommended way though, it separates the tasks and fits SVG into Glide request flow.

[anoop4real]

I am not trying to do anything heavy here :-), my aim is to load an svg from API and set it to an imageview.
sample: https://restcountries.eu/data/dza.svg , I don't want alter or customize the rendering of SVG and all, I was trying to follow the svg sample and was stuck at the listener part.

[TWiStErRob]

Just replicate the sample, coping over classes from that folder as necessary. Let us know if you're still having problems.

[bemesquita]

@anoop4real Same here, how did you solved?

[anoop4real]

@bernardomesk
I didnt try further, I ended up in using AndroidSvgLoader
It was really simple
implementation 'com.github.ar-android:AndroidSvgLoader:1.0.1'

[TWiStErRob]

That library did exactly as I said above, copied the sample code and made it a reusable function.

[itzpkyadav]

Hope the below code is useful for you.

Add this dependency in build.gradle

implementation 'com.github.corouteam:GlideToVectorYou:v2.0.0'
Now start working in MainActivity.java

ImageView image = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.ivimage);

String url= https://your_url/banking.svg GlideToVectorYou.init().with(this).load(Uri.parse(url),image);