Load sprite

Cargo.toml

 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
-sdl2 = "0.32"
+sdl2 = { version = "0.32", default_features = false, features = ["image"] }

src/main.rs

 use sdl2::pixels::Color;
 use sdl2::event::Event;
 use sdl2::keyboard::Keycode;
-use sdl2::render::WindowCanvas;
+use sdl2::render::{WindowCanvas, Texture};
+use sdl2::image::{self, LoadTexture, InitFlag};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
-fn render(canvas: &mut WindowCanvas, color: Color) {
+fn render(canvas: &mut WindowCanvas, color: Color, texture: &Texture) -> Result<(), String> {
     canvas.set_draw_color(color);
     canvas.clear();
+
+    canvas.copy(texture, None, None)?;
+
     canvas.present();
+
+    Ok(())
 }
 
 fn main() -> Result<(), String> {
     let sdl_context = sdl2::init()?;
     let video_subsystem = sdl_context.video()?;
+    let _image_context = image::init(InitFlag::PNG | InitFlag::JPG)?;
 
     let window = video_subsystem.window("game tutorial", 800, 600)
         .position_centered()
     let mut canvas =  window.into_canvas().build()
         .expect("could not make a canvas");
     
+    let texture_creator = canvas.texture_creator();
+    let texture = texture_creator.load_texture("assets/bardo.png")?;
+
     let mut event_pump = sdl_context.event_pump()?;
     let mut i = 0;
     'running: loop {
 
         i = (i + 1) % 255;
 
-        render(&mut canvas, Color::RGB(i, 64, 255-i));
+        render(&mut canvas, Color::RGB(i, 64, 255-i), &texture)?;
 
         ::std::thread::sleep(Duration::new(0, 1_000_000_000u32 / 60));
     }