Vector Icons on Android: Anatomy, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Surgery
summary
The talk examines Vector Drawable icons on Android, explaining how to analyze and optimize their internal structure. It covers detecting and removing pointless groups, useless clip paths, invisible contours, and excessive detail, and gives practical advice for handling warnings about overly long pathData.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Vector icons history on Android
- 2:11Android vector icons format
- 6:54Vector icon components
- 8:39Contour as geometry basis
- 12:40Outline and contour parameters
- 13:00Geometry description language
- 17:42Elliptical arc and closure
- 20:57Contour parsing example
- 22:22Fill Type rules
- 25:39Vector icon problems
- 28:07Icon optimization
- 34:34Comparison with SVG
- 35:17Optimization tools
- 36:01Q&A
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