Any clue what this is happening? :disappointed: `java.lang.NullPointerException: BitmapFactory.decod...

# compose

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Any clue what this is happening? 😞
java.lang.NullPointerException: BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, resId) must not be null

[caelum19]

Are any of those drawables vectors?

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Yup: new -> Vector Asset -> pick .svg file

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Ok, I resolved myself with your hint 😛

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Thank you 🙂

[caelum19]

np 🙂

[caelum19]

For searchers etc: vectorResource() instead of imageResource()

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Oh, yes, right, sry about that 😄 I was so concentrated in try to load it with the original color that I forgot 😄

[romainguy]

Maybe we should change the error message to give more hints about what’s going on

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Same, for searchers, don’t wrap into Icon but just Image 🙂

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

@romainguy yup, that would be great!

[romainguy]

“Unable to decode source bitmap, please check the file is not corrupted and contains a raster bitmap”

[romainguy]

or something like this

[romainguy]

Would you mind filing a bug?

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Sure, np 🙂

[Nader Jawad]

@romainguy I think there is more work for us to do regarding resource loading in general

[romainguy]

Definitely

[romainguy]

But this seems like an easy thing to do that would be helpful 🙂

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/166474286

[romainguy]

Thanks!

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Thank you for allow me to forgot about Xml design 😄

[romainguy]

Can’t wait for 5 years from now when our industry will decide that separating UI from code is better again 😛

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Given that we had
1) code in Java, design in xml
2) code and design in xml ( data binding )
3) code and design in Kotlin
I'd expect
4) design in Kotlin and code in xml
As the next step 😄

[gsala]

Just spent an hour on the same issue 😭