Vector Drawable support

[andrewfluck]

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

Environment:
OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13
Node: 8.9.0
Yarn: 1.2.1
npm: 5.5.1
Watchman: Not Found
Xcode: Not Found
Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4408382

Packages: (wanted => installed)
react: 16.0.0-beta.5 => 16.0.0-beta.5
react-native: 0.49.5 => 0.49.5

Steps to Reproduce

1. Put your vector drawable into the Android drawable folder.
2. Inside the image primitive, call the resource using the uri method
3. There is no vector drawable inside the view.

Expected Behavior

I expected the vector file to load fine and populate inside the Image

Actual Behavior

The vector drawable was not visible at all. I do not think it even loaded into there.

Reproducible Demo

1. Initialize a React Native project
2. Put a vector drawable in the drawable directory
3. Create an Image, I did this for example: <Image source={{ uri: 'ic_arrow' }} style={{height: 24, width: 24}}/>
4. Run the app, the vector doesn't load

[cdlewis]

Image doesn't support vector drawables so I think this is a feature request rather than a bug.

[andrewfluck]

Oh? It doesn't even support it? I would assume it did. 😕

[cdlewis]

If you Google around there are some modules that add vector drawable support. Can't speak to their quality/reliability though.

[andrewfluck]

That's the thing, I don't want something that could break easily, I trust primitives more than 3rd party implementations.

[andrewfluck]

Another thing is with vector drawables, they work just like normal bitmap drawables that you can require in. If the image component is based on ImageView, then it should be able to have native vector drawable support too. I could be wrong though.

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