Option to export as animation-list drawable

[DarkionAvey]

Hi. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for features, but anyway. Is there any chance you could implement an option to export the animation sequence as animation-list drawable for android? I know it's an outdated format, but it could come in handy when making Android themes.

It looks something like this (or sometimes with inline drawables)

<animation-list>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable1" android:duration="50" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable2" android:duration="50" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable3" android:duration="50" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable4" android:duration="50" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable5" android:duration="50" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable6" android:duration="50" />
 </animation-list>

Thanks!

[alexjlockwood]

Hmm, interesting idea. Is there a specific scenario that you are thinking of where it isn't possible to use an AnimatedVectorDrawable (and you would have to use an animation-list instead?).

[DarkionAvey]

Thanks for your reply! Yes, there's one particular case where animation-list is the only option for animations - it's OMS themes (aka Substratum). Basically, the OMS doesn't allow themes to introduce new IDs to the package that is to be themed. So if I were to use AVDs (create new IDs), the app will crash. For example, if I wanted to theme the status bar screenshot icon, I will have to replace only one file, and to be able to animate the icon, this one file will have to contain all frames without using @drawable. I've tried it on different SDKs, and it works only on Android 7+. Earlier versions of Android don't render inline drawables correctly. I will send you an example file in few hours. I'm away from my PC at the moment. Thanks!