Android State XML Drawable Generator

drawablegen.py

"""
script by @akhy

generate android xml state drawables from png 
"""



from sys import argv
from os import listdir
from os.path import isfile, join, splitext

suffix_off = "_off"
suffix_on = "_on"
targetdir = argv[1]
template = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:drawable="@drawable/{{base}}{{suffix_on}}" android:state_pressed="true"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/{{base}}{{suffix_off}}"/>

</selector>
"""

for f in listdir(targetdir):
  (name, ext) = splitext(f)
  
  if name.endswith(suffix_off):
    base = name[0:-len(suffix_off)]

    filename = "%s/%s.xml" % (targetdir, base)
    out = open(filename, "w")
    print filename

    text = template
    text = text.replace('{{base}}', base)
    text = text.replace('{{suffix_on}}', suffix_on)
    text = text.replace('{{suffix_off}}', suffix_off)

    out.write(text)
    out.close()

sample usage: python drawablegen.py path-to-project/drawable/xhdpi
search for files with specified suffix (e.g. _off) and generate xml drawables accordingly

thx gaes..
Siph ^^b