Is it possible that `imageFromResource` does not w...

# compose

[Luca Nicoletti]

Is it possible that imageFromResource does not work in repo?

[Luca Nicoletti]

I added a drawable but that always return null

[Adam Powell]

is it a bitmap or a vector? at the moment it only does bitmaps

[Luca Nicoletti]

the old fashioned 5 .png files 😄

[Luca Nicoletti]

Oh, actually, it also has a xml for anyDp

[Luca Nicoletti]

Can this be the problem?

[Adam Powell]

Could be

[Luca Nicoletti]

It was

[Adam Powell]

I'm agitating for something Drawable-like in compose but without `Drawable`'s regrets

[Adam Powell]

not there yet though 🙂

[Luca Nicoletti]

Removing the xml files now won’t crash the app 😄

[Adam Powell]

the current situation with vectors being handled at composition time makes things awkward

[romainguy]

@Adam Powell Drawables without all the things that make them more like widgets would be fine

[Adam Powell]

Yeah exactly

[Adam Powell]

Model observation should give us nearly everything we need in terms of smarts where it's needed

[Luca Nicoletti]

🤔

[Adam Powell]

Invalidation for changes stays implicit, if something in a drawable is backed by @Model then that value changing will trigger redraw

[Luca Nicoletti]

how is this related to getting a null value when there’s also a xml for anyDp?

[Adam Powell]

Same with any kind of preferred size being read by the composable that lays out and draws it

[Adam Powell]

Just that we can unify vectors and bitmaps so you don't have to see this distinction

[Adam Powell]

One resource load that just works

[Luca Nicoletti]

Oh, I see, it was an internal discussion 😄

[Adam Powell]

Yeah, just giving a view inside 🙂

[Luca Nicoletti]

👀

[romainguy]

imageResource blindly tries to decode a bitmap which is why you get null

[romainguy]

An XML is not a bitmap

[Luca Nicoletti]

Yeah I know that

[Luca Nicoletti]

My question was more: why is it retrieving the xml file alongside all the ones available

[Adam Powell]

It was the variant of that drawable selected for your current configuration

[Adam Powell]

Android resources treat the two as equivalent in terms of identity

[Adam Powell]

And compose isn't currently set up to play as nicely with that as it needs to be