Gradle Material Design Icons Plugin

This plugin will manage Google's official material design icons in your build.gradle. The plugin copies specified icons from the material design icon repository into your application allowing you to focus on the png icons only.

The working sample project is here.

Usage

buildscript {
  repositories {
    jcenter()
  }

  dependencies {
    classpath 'com.tmiyamon:gradle-mdicons:0.3.1'
  }
}

repositories {
  jcenter()
}

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'com.tmiyamon.mdicons'

The plugin will clone the material design icons repository to your local environment first, and then refer to it for later builds. The first build will take a while as a result of the clone.

Configuration

mdicons {
    defcolor 'mycolor', '#9804d9'

    assets {
        nav {
            densities "mdpi", "xxxhdpi"
            colors "mycolor", "white"
            sizes  "18dp", "36dp"
            names  "camera", "search"
        }

        toolbar {
            colors "primary", "secondary"
            sizes  "18dp"
            names  "home"
        }
    }

}

Google's material design icons repository follows a naming convention of */drawable-{{density}}/ic_{{name}}_{{color}}_{{size}}dp.png.

The blocks in assets can have any name and you can define colors(required), sizes(required), names(required) and densities(optional) in it, and then the plugin install icons by the combination of them into your project. No specific densities means mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi, xxxhdpi.

Icon tinting

The icon tinting is supported. The plugin gets the color information from the values of defcolor and the src/main/res/values/colors.xml file. You can use these color names for names in asset block.

At installation of icons, when trying to get a specific color icon fails, the plugin try to convert white one to the color one and install it.

Tasks

installAssets

Install assets with supporting tinting. The destination directory is src/main/res-mdicons which will be automatically added to the resource path set. When successfully installed, the icons will be reffered by R.mipmap. If no problem but you cannot refer them, running gradle processResources may help you.

uninstallAssts

Uninstall assets by deleting destination directory.

listColors

You can check out the available colors for colors in assets block.

syncRepository

Mainly implicitly used but you can explicitly clone or pull the material design repostiory on your system by running this task.