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Currently if we have a binary XML, we need to use this weird reflection on the library to get a VectorDrawable out of it :

        @SuppressLint("PrivateApi")
        Class<?> xmlBlock = Class.forName("android.content.res.XmlBlock");
        Constructor xmlBlockConstr = xmlBlock.getConstructor(byte[].class);
        Method xmlParserNew = xmlBlock.getDeclaredMethod("newParser");
        xmlBlockConstr.setAccessible(true);
        xmlParserNew.setAccessible(true);
        XmlPullParser parser = (XmlPullParser) xmlParserNew.invoke(
                xmlBlockConstr.newInstance((Object) binXml));
        final AttributeSet attrs = Xml.asAttributeSet(parser);
        int type = parser.next();
        while (type != XmlPullParser.START_TAG)
             type = parser.next();
        return VectorDrawableCompat.createFromXmlInner(context.getResources(), parser, attrs, null);
       
Original link:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/59023594/878126

Please just make those things public, so that we could parse binary XML content into VectorDrawable easily.

I don't like to use reflection for those cases, even on a library, but currently that's the only way I've noticed there is to parse  binary XML into VectorDrawable.