Using AndroidSVG with ImageView

The simplest way to use AndroidSVG with an ImageView is to take advantage of the renderToPicture() method and set the Picture as a Drawable.

public class MainActivity extends Activity
{

   @Override
   protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
   {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

      ImageView  imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.yourImageView);
      imageView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
      try
      {
         SVG svg = SVG.getFromResource(this, R.raw.my_svg_file);
         Drawable drawable = new PictureDrawable(svg.renderToPicture());
         imageView.setImageDrawable(drawable);
      }
      catch(SVGParseException e)
      {}
   }

}

Note that the setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE) call is necessary in order to set the View into software rendering mode. The reason is that from ICS onwards, Android enables hardware rendering by default. The hardware renderer does not yet support the Canvas.drawPicture() method. See this FAQ question for more information.

Alternatively, versions of AndroidSVG from 1.2 on include an implementation of ImageView called SVGImageView which handles parsing and displaying SVG documents for you and can be used directly in your layouts.