Import material design icons into an android project

Question

Is there an easy way to import all the icons of the Material Design icons repository into an android project with out the hazard of doing it manually?

Answer 1

Here is a script that clones the github repository of the material design icons at

https://github.com/google/material-design-icons

and creates an index of all files. It also copies the svg files to subdirectories by category. You can use this as a basis to copy the files your are interested in into your project - just modify the find and cp copy statement to your liking. If you e.g. need the png's at a certain size - they are in neighbouring directories and you need to modify the find and copy command accordingly then.

#!/bin/bash
# WF 2016-06-04
# get google material design icons
# see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28684759/import-material-design-icons-into-an-android-project
tmp=/tmp/icons
index=$tmp/index.html
mkdir -p $tmp
cd $tmp
if [ ! -d material-design-icons ]
then
  git clone https://github.com/google/material-design-icons
fi
cat << EOF > $index

  
    
    
      
Google Material Design Icons
EOF
for icon in `find . -name *.svg | grep production | grep 48`
do
    svg=`basename $icon .svg`
    category=`echo $icon | cut -f3 -d '/'`
    echo $category $svg.svg
    mkdir -p $tmp/$category
    cp $icon $tmp/$category
    echo "    " >> $index
done
cat << EOF >> $index
  

EOF