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It's great that :compose-multiplatform: *Compose for Desktop* gives us out-of-the-box *SVG* *rendering* support now, and unfortunate that the same direct support doesn't exist for Android :disappointed: .
Those who are using SVG across multiple platforms including Android, what does your solution look like?
In a recent project, I wrapped the `SVGView` from Caverock's *<https://github.com/BigBadaboom/androidsvg|AndroidSVG>* library.  It was last updated in 2019 but works well, wrapped in an `AndroidView`; no complaints!  I might do that again, but interested to hear alternatives?

I just transform the svg to vector drawable and I use it from a common function in desktop and android

I think <https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/1831|https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/1831> will be interesting to watch as whatever is good for Flutter will probably be good for Compose too (both targeting Skia)

A nice fast binary format (read: not XML) for simple vectors that works across platforms would surely be welcome :thumbsup:

IMO, XML isn't the biggest issue; Android XML resources are all compressed at build time into what is effectively a binary stream of parse events, which cuts out a big chunk of the runtime cost on each device

but SVG has too many things that require a lot of infrastructure to support (DOM, fonts, filters, etc.) while AVD is simultaneously too limited of a subset as well as being tied to Android (attr references for gradients etc.). having a reasonably sane cross-platform vector format would definitely be great :)

<@U02AAF49HKJ> Thanks for your earlier suggestion to use Coil for SVG.  I used this to create a cross Desktop/Android `svgPainter` function that can display an SVG loaded from *MokoResources* on either platform - perfect :smile: