Using Coil, I want to in case I got no internet or whatever to simply fill my image with a simple androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color. Now, the .placeholder and .error function on Coil’s builder take in a

Drawable

, but I can’t figure out a way to get a hold of a

Drawable

in a simple way in Compose without going for xml drawables or something like that. Is there some API I’m missing?

there is a

ColorDrawable

Right, I can use this and provide it a color defined in my xml resources. I guess this will do for now, but if I were to have a pure compose app and my theme was specified in code, are there no alternatives? 🤔

the compose

Color

has a

toARGB

function that you can pass to the constructor of the

ColorDrawable

Aha! The

int

parameter which is annotated with

@ColorInt

means this ColorInt. Which reads

Denotes that the annotated element represents a packed color int, AARRGGBB. If applied to an int array, every element in the array represents a color integer.

I thought it was referring to an xml source! Thanks a lot! This seems to be exactly what I was looking for.

👍

IIRC Coil Compose has a

placeholder

parameter and you can use a

ColorPainter

.

Yeah I was still using

rememberAsyncImagePainter

as I was migrating from 1.x but you’re right I now tried this with the

AsyncImage

API which does take a

Painter

and that is super straightforward to use. I can just do

ColorPainter(hedvigBlack)

. And I had a

BitmapDrawable

I was drawing before, but now I can just do

BitmapPainter(myBitmapDrawable.bitmap.asImageBitmap())

and that works just fine too, thanks a lot!