Can someone suggest me a quick way to create some svg files or convert some basic flat shapes like image of a redcircle or a blue heart into .SVGs?

I don't have any experience in graphics development, so online/offline tools or converstion engines would be also nice.

I once asked this question in the office and got reprimanded by my senior cause .svgs are a security risk..... Needed it for an android app... I ended up asking a graphic designer contact to do it for me... So the reason I am actually rambling here is to see if you get any help.... Cause I might need it for future reference.. 😶

@GhostDev svg, security risk ... What ? 😂

@Charon92 huh, haven't thought of it that way, thats interesting

@Charon92 wowa didn't know that

You could create them in inkscape then export to standard svg.

For anyone discussing the security issue, could this be solved/mitigated on the dev side by encoding it in base64 then making an md5 hash of it to validate later on, or even when called/loaded?

@GhostDev yepp i also need those for Android apps, great on resources and UI.

@Charon92 :woah, i didn't knew that.
Hey look at this: when we Android guys need an svf file , its mainly because Android studio has a feature to convert those svg files into XML icons.
So what do you mean, is there a risk that the svg will crash my Android studio or will it remain after xml conversion and cause security problems in my app?

@Charon92 yeah i guess.. wow i was really struck for a moment. Anyways its Android studio doing the conversions automatically , a shit backed by Google. So i hope they can handle all the bugs.

Adding a lot of pngs for different screen sizes takes a hell lot of space . And when they wither on more pixelated screens, that's your UI right down the drain :/

Check out https://icomoon.io - It might be that the shapes you want are already available in one of many free icon sets (downloadable as fonts or SVGs).

https://thenounproject.com

yeah you can embed pretty much everything in svg with the xml tag
<![CDATA[your css and js goes here]]>
It's perfect for svg animations. It becomes almost like a .swf flash file. 😄

Great suggestions everyone. Thanks 😘🙌
Hey @dfox, are the avatars created in vectors too? I really like these and was thinking of adding them to my projects.are there any official downloadables available for those?

I was 'stalking' someone who ++ my rant, and after reading her bio description, I thought she could also contribute to this post (which has been very helpful but more is better) @Alice do you have anything you can suggest here that has not been suggested yet? (^^,)

@Alice : nah you got it right. Thanks