Been playing with Canvas, DrawScope, Path, and drawPath(). Been going good, but now I want to "fill"...

# compose

[Travis Griggs]

Been playing with Canvas, DrawScope, Path, and drawPath(). Been going good, but now I want to "fill" a path with R.drawable.my_background_thingie. I've been poking around, but it's not clear to me what the intermediary I need to work though. On iOS, you can make a Color that wraps around an image. But I'm guessing, I need to use the Brush variant of the drawPath() function? But how to make a Brush that tiles a vector drawable isn't clear? Does it need to be converted to a bitmap first?

[romainguy]

If the drawable is a vector, then yes you'll need to convert it to an image (or do the tiling yourself)

[romainguy]

Then you can use the image as a brush indeed

[Travis Griggs]

Is there a "compose way" to do this idiomatically? I've really been trying to not have to learn "all the old" stuff as I go forward with this

[romainguy]

To convert a drawable to a Bitmap?

[romainguy]

This has nothing to do with Compose, but you can use androidx-core-ktx and its Drawable.toBitmap() extension function to make it easy

[romainguy]

https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/core/graphics/drawable/DrawableKt#(android.graphics.drawable.Draw[…]android.graphics.Bitmap.Config)

[Travis Griggs]

Thank you