A couple of years ago I wrote about our support for Flamingo which translates static SVG files to Java source files that you can treat as images within Codename One while getting pixel perfect resolution independent results. There were a few minor changes since until a month ago when Steve committed some work to address this RFE.

Flamingo works by translating SVG’s to Java source code that you can compile in Codename One. This means more elaborate features such as SVG animations are discarded as part of the process. It also means some SVG’s just won’t work. With the new update we added support for a lot of SVG’s and also updated the flamingo binary distribution which we didn’t have in the original project.

The recent changes include both improvement to the translation process and to the Codename One API. Our updated API now supports features such as paint and gradient drawing which is commonly used in SVG. Specifically Steve added a Paint interface, with concrete subclass LinearGradientPaint that can be used to fill a shape with a gradient via Graphics.setColor(Paint) then Graphics.fillShape(shape). There are quite a few other related changes such as MultipleGradientPaint and AffineTransform…​

With these in place you can convert a lot of typical SVG’s and use them in your app. The big question is whether we’ll integrate this deeper into Codname One by automating this process. Right now we’re not sure about that or how such integration will look. Maybe something similar to the CSS integration.