Help in finding and visualizing drawables in commonMain

[HugoTHOLLON]

Hello, I'm new on the project and with Kotlin multiplatform, while working on a quest suggested in #6457, I wanted to look at an icon and was taken to this file: app/src/commonMain/composeResources/drawable/count_electric_car.xml.
Android Studio doesn't give a preview option for this file and I can't find it in the Project file list.

Does anyone have a solution to see this file (and the others inside app/src/commonMain/composeResources/drawable) ? Did I miss something or forgot an update ? Also are these files meant to be used ?

[paulklie]

Does anyone have a solution to see this file (and the others inside app/src/commonMain/composeResources/drawable) ?

The .xml is a propiatary android format, similar to svgs. Every svg is converted to this format, but you can find the originals at https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/tree/master/res/graphics/quest

Also are these files meant to be used ?

They are used when building the application. The .svg is only used for documentation and the wiki.

[matkoniecz]

The .svg is only used for documentation and the wiki.

they are also useful when you want to modify existing design or create new icon based on existing one

[HugoTHOLLON]

Just to be sure, if I want to create another drawable xml file similar to count_electric_car.xml I can copy, paste and update it while keeping it in the app/src/commonMain/composeResources/drawable folder ? Or do I need to put it elsewhere ?

[matkoniecz]

I would probably take svg that it was generated from, edit SVG and inport SVG with Android Studio.

I can copy, paste and update it while keeping it in the app/src/commonMain/composeResources/drawable folder ?

I expect that it would work, but I have not tried it. And you would need to somehow make SVG anyway (there are likely converting tools for that).
But editing SVG rather than some niche SVG-like format is much easier anyway.

[mnalis]

Don't know about Android Studio (as I don't use it) but you can preview .xml Android Drawables them online at e.g. https://vd.floo.app/

[westnordost]

See also https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KMT-1204/Preview-vector-drawables-located-in-compose-resources-folder