If I render an SVG image with <Image source={{uri: 'https://productpains.com/img/user-placeholder.svg'}} />, nothing renders and I don't get any error message.
This would be great for dynamically rendered SVG.
how? It doesn't support show SVG file (or i couldn't find the way)
@Ilker Güller: SVG is a markup just like HTML, open it in your editor and convert it manually into a JSX file as shown in the examples
this still isn't implemented? weird
TL;DR: I am happy to help provide Sketch generated SVG graphics of single and multi-color icons and help test when this feature gets worked on.
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Some scenarios I see:
- multiple paths inside a single <PATH>
- separate paths in their own <PATH>
- <PATH> elements inside Groups
- Using Id= to set the name of each <PATH> . (would be ideal to design in black and white and allow color overrides in RN
- Clockwise vs. counter-clockwise SVG paths
it does not look like react-native-svg supports some of these common elements (id, group) that would get set from a designer in Sketch, it's more geared toward generating SVGs programatically.
Vector Icons are not enough i'm afraid. Try using symbols like Cross, Stopwatch, Block, etc. inside a background, where the background must be one color and the icon on top must be another vs. transparent. Icons do not allow this.
Also from a workflow standpoint of designers creating SVG graphics in a popular tool like Sketch, it is VERY CONVOLUTED currently to get those SVGs turned into Icons even with Fontello or Icomoon, etc. I just spent all day yesterday working on this, and we are falling back to the built in PNG support and 1x-3x image sizes.
Attached is a sample 2-color icon as a PNG and below is the code that Sketch generates when outputting to SVG (the white is not transparent)
`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg width="64px" height="64px" viewBox="0 0 64 64" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<!-- Generator: Sketch 42 (36781) - http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch -->
<title>squared-stopwatch</title>
<desc>Created with Sketch.</desc>
<defs></defs>
<g id="Page-1" stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd">
<g id="squared-stopwatch" fill-rule="nonzero">
<g>
<path d="M56,0 L8,0 C3.6,0 0,3.6 0,8 L0,56 C0,60.4 3.6,64 8,64 L56,64 C60.4,64 64,60.4 64,56 L64,8 C64,3.6 60.4,0 56,0 Z" id="background" fill="#FFB75D"></path>
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</g>
</g>
</g>
</svg>`
thank you for the excellent summary on the current state of affairs.
"we are falling back to the built in PNG support and 1x-3x image sizes"
this seems to be the best approach instead of exporting complex svg from sketch and trying to render it with react-native-svg-uri.
I am wondering if exporting from other graphic editors beyond sketch would produce any better svg code?
Overall, i am at a loss on what the current state of SVG support is across react native, native android, and native ios. So I don't even know which rules are not supported in the autogenerated svg files.
use a WebView
does it help with this? https://github.com/necinc/msvgc
I think we'll want to be able to specify the source as either a uri (as in the example) or as data (as used by react-native-svg). This gives us some choice over our performance trade offs based on the vector's complexity.
I'm successfully using: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-svg
My process:
1. Clean up SVG in graphics app (Illustrator/Sketch/etc) to set consistent width, height, and make sure the viewBox is "0, 0, W, H"
2. Open SVG in text editor to remove width, height, and any undesired/unnecessary styles
3. Open in https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ and optimize.
4. Integrate info app by converting SVG tags to component-based SVG tags used in https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-svg and updating with JS variables such that I can controls dimensions, colors, etc.
5. Use in other components.
For a set of icons, I place them in a single component and pass a "name" property to return the desired SVG:
https://gist.github.com/beausmith/d2b56e6659e08ad0ceb4ae8684fb05d1
@Beau Smith: Is this scaleable? As in, if I had a list with 100 png's rendering vs a list of 100 svg's rendering, which would by defualt have better performance? Thanks :)
@Dan Huey: Use react-native-svg If you need to manipulate nodes, otherwise it's not efficient in speed and memory.
https://github.com/matc4/react-native-svg-uri seems like a great candidate
@Juan: A more efficient way is to convert the svg files to actual react components, much less overhead than react-native-svg-uri for bundled assets (it also has problems with release builds on android, requires a babel plugin to read the svg as plain text). There exists https://github.com/chrisbull/svg-to-react-native-cli
Or alternatively, if you need to clean up svgs made in illustrator for use with react-native-svg, then you can use my gist: https://gist.github.com/msand/4b37d3ce04246f83cb28fdbfe4716ecc
It converts Illustrator SVG export into cross-platform CSS independent mode. CSS rule and style inlining, group gradients into a definitions tag, remove elements with display set to none, make colors hex. Works with react-native-web react-native-svg and svgs to give cross-platform web and native mobile rendering of any SVG produced in Illustrator.
@Mikael Sand: I agree, I had some issues when deploying so I ended up exporting svg as text from independent js files
I just published a new package that solves this and adds support for remote svg images (local and remote)! Try it and let me know if you find any issues.
@Shiva Nandan: Works! My respects
@Shiva Nandan: This will instanciate an entire WebView for each images. Each WebViews asks for a lot of memory and cpu ressources. So it's really not good for performance at scale, when interfaces may have an hundred of little images and icons to display.
@Yair Behar: How this is good?? It`s terrible
@alex row: I wanted to say "not good". I ommited the "not". Of course this is terrible. I corrected my comment.
I'd love to see native support for this. Webviews and other packages have been clunky, at best.
I can't see any image follow your url
We've had great luck using https://github.com/oblador/react-native-vector-icons and icomoon.io for generating a custom icon font.
@udi: cud u kindly guide me on this, I tried unsuccessfully to generate a custom ttf for my RN app.