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Hello folks, if you're curious about how VectorDrawables and SVG work, and wonder if you could generate nice graphics with quite short Kotlin code, this article is for you!
<https://blog.louiscad.com/optimized-chessboard-pattern-vectordrawable-in-kotlin>

<https://github.com/alexjlockwood/avocado> (formerly avgo, influenced by svgo) performs many optimizations on svgs and vector drawables, including minimizing paths

what I do for our app is "DEV" etc. color+text labels overlaid on top of launcher icon for non-release builds, by way of
• imagemagick scripts to automatically generate icon overlay images from text (as bitmap icons are still needed for pre-API 24)
• inkscape scripts to automatically generate icon overlay svgs from text
• Gradle plugin which automatically converts and merges the icons for each application variant

I'm considering making an automated tool to generate raster icons out of adaptive icons now that I know how to convert VectorDrawables to png, so I don't have to deal with cumbersome icon changes ever again.