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romannurik/AndroidIconAnimator
Android vector icon animation tool
A web-based GUI for designing Android AnimatedVectorDrawable animations — think timeline + canvas for SVG path animations that export directly to Android XML. Built by a Googler as a precursor to Shape Shifter. The README itself tells you to go use Shape Shifter instead.
The AVD serialization and SVG loading pipeline (AvdSerializer.js, VectorDrawableLoader.js) is a solid reference for anyone implementing AnimatedVectorDrawable export from scratch. The model layer (Animation, AnimationBlock, PathLayer, etc.) maps cleanly to the AVD spec. Ships with real example files covering path morphing and icon transitions — useful as test fixtures even if you ignore the app.
Explicitly unmaintained since 2020, with the author pointing you to a different project. Built on AngularJS + Bower + Gulp — a dependency stack that is three generations behind and will take real work to get running. No tests beyond a single ColorUtil test file. There is no reason to adopt this over Shape Shifter unless you specifically need the source as historical reference.