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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?

<https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/drawable/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? :thinking_face:

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 <https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/annotation/ColorInt|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!