Hello, on version 6.2 it happens (at least on my phone, Android 10) that saving the file as SVG, it gets saved as JPEG. What happened? Before it worked as expected.

Currently the two fingers zoom uses the center of the canvas as origin for the zoom. This dramatically limits the use cases of the zoom functionality.

Usually, the zoom gesture users the middle of the distance between the two fingers as origin. This allows to navigate in the drawing and zoom a specific region of the drawing to e.g. improve it.

Hi @tibbi

I found this app called Drawing Easy Draw On Screen on the Google Play Store. This guy just took your source code, added some ads in it and put it on the Store, without warning this is free software...

As you are the owner of the source code, feel free to open a request to google here to remove this copy from the Store, if it's your wish ;)

Don't forget to tell Google that:

• The app is licensed under Apache v2 license and this guy is violating it;
• He is falsely claiming he made the app;
• Provide some screenshots of your own app.

Hey :)

I've been implementing the loading logic for .svg files. It actually uses an XML parser for the parsing part, although the SVG path data (for example, <path d="M24,52 …) is my own implementation, thus it will result in undefined behaviour if the .svg trying to be loaded was not exported with Simple Draw.

Currently, it parses the .svg files and already loads the canvas. Only missing the "Load" part on the menu. How should a Simple application implement the "Open file" dialog?

First of all, thanks for this great app! I was searching for a JetDraw FOSS replacement for a long time and now I finally found this nice app. Although its still missing some features, its already one of my favorite apps – not bloated, following the KISS principle... However, I'm quite confused by the app name: F-Droid lists it as "Draw", here it's name is "Simple Draw". Is there a reason for this non-consistent app name? Otherwise I would suggest to stick to one name, so it can be found on all platforms (e.g. F-Droid and GitHub) easily. Merry Christmas! :santa:

I'd like to integrate Kontalk with your app, in such a way that I can send an intent to invoke your app, the user draws something and, when finished, the output is returned to Kontalk so it can be sent as a message. What do you think? The intent can be used by other apps as well of course.

You could use (along with your custom intent name) the IMAGE_CAPTURE intent so the interface would be standard.

This helps fix #138 and #166.

The old zoom behaviour means that when you zoom in after moving the canvas, you end up zooming away from what you were recently drawing. In other words, the center of the zoom was at (0, 0) or the original center of the image.

This PR fixes that by adjusting the canvas position based of how much is zoomed so that the zoom is focused towards the center of what you can see (the screen) - fixing any weirdness with the zoom that was after moving.

If you zoom, small dots or lines are drawn at the position of the fingers before zooming starts. It would be good to suppress the last line when zooming is detected.

Notes:

• ic_color_fill_off_vector is a temporary icon and needs to be updated. If needed, I will create this one too but my Inkscape skills are very rusty

• Simplified the undo/redo code using Operation abstraction

• Color fill changes are not saved with SVGs. More research/development is needed on this.

• Bitmap operations are not saved during onSaveInstanceState because of the obvious memory/space issue. I did not find any related bugs though. Perhaps using Path objects in the flood-fill algorithm can remedy this and the above issue.

Preview:

(Grid cells filled one by one followed by repeated undo/redo)

I had the same problem reported in https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Draw/issues/116 The quick solution for me was to save the last extension, add a "Reset" button and to change the behavior of the "Clear" button, by just clearing the canvas and reset the file name

I think the UI could be simplified, with every tool being in the menu bar. Also, the "C" button could be in the "more" menu, as it's in my opinion better if it's not to easy to access, to avoid deleting current drawing by accident.

Also it seems that the title "Draw" is not really necessary and could let space to have more tools in toolbar, or to make them distant and more easily clickable. It could look like the following picture.

Maybe an even better option would be to have the drawing full screen and all tools in a sidemenu.

What do you think?

Thanks for this simple and great app (and suite of apps).

I've just upgraded to android 11 and I wish SimpleDraw was listed in the apps that are able to open a screenshot (because that's my main use case for using SimpleDraw).

When I press "power+vol down", see the "popup" that appears on the lower left corner:

When I click "edit", here are the only apps that are listed. I wished SimpleDraw appeared here:

I have no idea why it is not listed there, because FX file explorer correctly shows it in the list of apps able to open pictures:

Do you have any idea how you could do so? (I'm not experienced enough in android development to be able to figure this out by myself :-( )

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If gesture navigation is enabled on the phone and I swipe from either edge to go back or swipe up from the bottom to minimize, the draw occurs. So I can't exit without unwanted drawing. Maybe there is some way to detect these gestures and avoid drawing when they occur.

Strangely, Simple Gallery can open WebP format, but Simple Draw can't. At least opening should work, but most recent versions of Android support it natively, so saving lossy (better than JPG) &/or lossless (better than PNG) would be more useful.

05 June 2021, Sat

Hi! I love this app 💖

Although this app is meant for fun, I find it quite useful for teaching. It's minimalist and customisable interface is just perfect and amazing! This gives the user a lot more freedom and control over the app.

But I found that I could not import multiple images and rotate them on canvas. This kind of limits me since I use a lot of images and annotate them while teaching.

I request you to add these features. It could greatly increase the usability of the app beyond just having some fun.

Here's a screenshot of how it could look like -

You can clearly see where my inspiration comes from 😁

Congratulations! 🥳🎉

Currently when using a stylus or finger on a Chromebook there is lag between the touch points and the drawing of the line. Here is the developer page with more info on how to add support: https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/input-compatibility Thanks! (Also you can register it as a note taking app to be accessed from the lockscreen)