AwesomeText alternatives and similar packages
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android-autofittextview
A TextView that automatically resizes text to fit perfectly within its bounds. -
ExpandableTextView
Android's TextView that can expand/collapse like the Google Play's app description -
android-edittext-validator
Android form edit text is an extension of EditText that brings data validation facilities to the edittext. -
AutoLinkTextView
AutoLinkTextView is TextView that supports Hashtags (#), Mentions (@) , URLs (http://), Phone and Email automatically detecting and ability to handle clicks. -
Android-RobotoTextView
Implementation of a TextView and all its direct/indirect subclasses with native support for the Roboto fonts, includes the brand new Roboto Slab fonts. -
WaitingDots
Small library that provides... bouncing dots. This feature is used in number of messaging apps (such as Hangouts or Messenger), and lately in Android TV (for example when connecting to Wifi). -
SecretTextView
A TextView that simulates the effect from the app Secret where the characters fade in/out at different speeds. -
Masked-Edittext
Android library contain custom realisation of EditText component for masking and formatting input text -
chips-edittext-library
Chips EditText, Token EditText, Bubble EditText, Spannable EditText and etc.. There are many names of this control. Here I develop easy to understand , modify and integrate Chips Edit Text widget for Android -
AnimatedEditText
Androids EditText that animates the typed text. EditText is extended to create AnimatedEditText and a PinEntryEditText. -
EmailAutoCompleteTextView
An AutoCompleteTextView with builtin Adapter with the emails in the device. -
CurrencyEditText
A module designed to encapsulate the use of an Android EditText field for gathering currency information from a user. Supports all ISO-3166 compliant locales/currencies. -
AutosizeEditText
AutosizeEditText for Android is an extension of native EditText that offer a smooth auto scale text size. -
Android-SingleInputForm
A single EditText instead of a classical form. Library that implements flavienlaurent's singleinputform -
anytextview
An extension of Android's TextView, EditText and Button that let's you use the font of your choice -
android-formidable-validation
Form validation and feedback library for Android. Provides .setText for more than just TextView and EditText widgets. Provides easy means to validate with dependencies. -
MaskFormatter
Add text masking functionality to Android EditText. It will prevent user from inserting not allowed signs, and format input as well. -
KerningViews
Provides a set of views which allows to adjust the spacing between the characters of that view, AKA, Kerning effect. -
SimpleLinkableText
Simple way to create linked text, such as @username or #hashtag, in Android TextView and EditText
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README
AwesomeText
Working with Spans is ugly and difficult to manage, it's like working with a goblin of Moria. Don't understand the Spans? With AwesomeText you will only have to work with the classic Adapter Pattern. All the ease and potential of a pattern you already know how to use.
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Download via Gradle:
dependencies {
compile 'com.jmpergar:AwesomeText:1.0.0'
}
Or via Maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.jmpergar</groupId>
<artifactId>AwesomeText</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<type>aar</type>
</dependency>
Usage
On the same way that you working with ListAdapter, you must implement an interface to delegate the creation of the view, in this case AwesomeTextHandler.ViewSpanRenderer interface. The method getView is the responsible of this.
public class HashtagsSpanRenderer implements AwesomeTextHandler.ViewSpanRenderer {
@Override
public View getView(String text, Context context) {
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
TextView hashtagView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.hashtag);
hashtagView.setText(text);
return hashtagView;
}
}
If you want to manage click events only must to implement AwesomeTextHandler.ViewSpanClickListener.
public class MentionSpanRenderer implements AwesomeTextHandler.ViewSpanRenderer, AwesomeTextHandler.ViewSpanClickListener {
@Override
public View getView(String text, Context context) {
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
TextView mentionView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.mention);
mentionView.setText(text);
return mentionView;
}
@Override
public void onClick(String text, Context context) {
Toast.makeText(context, "Hello " + text, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
And finally you configure AwesomeTextHandler to view the changes. Now, when you call AwesomeTextHandler.setText the change will be rendered automatically.
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
private static final String HASHTAG_PATTERN = "(#[\\p{L}0-9-_]+)";
private static final String MENTION_PATTERN = "(@[\\p{L}0-9-_]+)";
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
AwesomeTextHandler awesomeTextViewHandler = new AwesomeTextHandler();
awesomeTextViewHandler
.addViewSpanRenderer(HASHTAG_PATTERN, new HashtagsSpanRenderer())
.addViewSpanRenderer(MENTION_PATTERN, new MentionSpanRenderer())
.setView(textView);
AwesomeTextHandler awesomeEditTextHandler = new AwesomeTextHandler();
awesomeEditTextHandler
.addViewSpanRenderer(HASHTAG_PATTERN, new HashtagsSpanRenderer())
.addViewSpanRenderer(MENTION_PATTERN, new MentionSpanRenderer())
.setView(editText);
}
}
Developed By
- José Manuel Pereira García - [email protected]
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License
Copyright 2015 José Manuel Pereira García
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the AwesomeText README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.