How can I create an `ImageAsset` from a `Bitmap` o...

# compose

[Rafs]

How can I create an ImageAsset from a Bitmap object?

[Ian Lake]

Sounds like you're looking for `bitmap.asImageAsset()`: https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/graphics/package-summary#asimageasset

[Rafs]

Thank you

[Rafs]

@Ian Lake is there also a way of converting a VectorAsset created with vectorResource(..) into an ImageAsset?

[Ian Lake]

Generally those aren't interchangeable things so the previous guidance has been that any API that takes an ImageAsset should have another overload that takes a VectorAsset (that's how Icon works for instance). I know there's been some recent work in this space - maybe @Nader Jawad has more info?

[Rafs]

@Ian Lake I've been trying to draw a vector asset onto the canvas using drawImage but it's only accepting an ImageAsset and not a VectorAsset

[Nader Jawad]

You can draw a VectorAsset by creating a VectorPainter from it and calling draw into a target canvas

[Nader Jawad]

Icon and Image already have convience methods to consume VectorAsset instances directly and create a VectorPainter on your behalf

[Nader Jawad]

You can create a VectorPainter by calling rememberVectorPainter(myVectorAsset) within a composable method

[Nader Jawad]

There's some samples here: https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-master-dev:compose/ui/ui/integration-tests/ui-demos/src/main/java/androidx/compose/ui/demos/VectorGraphicsDemo.kt;l=45?q=VectorGraphicsDemo&sq=

[Rafs]

Thank you @Nader Jawad

[cb]

@Manuel Vivo and I went through recently in this talk (about 18:00) https://chris.banes.dev/talks/2020/compose-for-existing-apps-dcemea/