Hi, Custom drawables are not allowed from XML, mostly for security reasons. XML drawables can be loaded as resources by other processes (including Launcher or the system process) and it would be a terrible idea to run random 3rd party code in these processes.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Jean-Michel <jeanmichel.caz...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi there, > I am trying to implement my own custom drawable to draw triangles > (this is an example) by extending ShapeDrawable. > Writing the component was OK. > Using the component in the code is OK. > > I cam to a brick wall when trying to use the drawable only in XML. > > Example of myDrawable.xml: > <com.mycompany.myproject.MyShapeDrawable> > <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FFFFFFFF"/> > <solid android:color="#00000000" /> > </ com.mycompany.myproject.MyShapeDrawable> > > I have been crawling the web all day about this and it seems that this > cannot be done. > > It is actually not possible ? (The code seem to tell it is not) > > If it cannot be done this is disapointing as it almost defeat the > purpose of drawable outside what is provided by Google. > Furthermore, it is does not seem so massively complicated. > Looking at Drawable.createFromXmlInner(Resources r, XmlPullParser > parser, AttributeSet attrs), it feels fairly easy to use introspection > and check that "name" is or not a class from the project that extends > Drawable. > > The same idea could be extended to ShapeDrawable when the name of the > shape in unknown. > > Thanks for your help anyway. > > Jean-Michel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
