Android Commons
Various useful utilities for Android apps development.
API documentation provided as Javadoc.
Usage
Add dependency to your build.gradle file:
compile 'com.alexvasilkov:android-commons:2.0.2'
Main features
Views
Simple utility class to find views within layout with implicit types casting
(e.g. TextView tv = Views.find(layout, R.id.text_view);)
Includes other methods to simplify work with views and layouts.
Navigate
Helper methods to navigate between screens and to open external app to perform related actions, for example: share text; compose email or sms; open browser or Google Play, pick phone number and many more.
SpannableBuilder
SpannableStringBuilder implementation that helps applying various text styles to a single TextView.
Fonts
Utility to set custom fonts for all views extending TextView, uses android:tag to store font info.
InstanceStateManager
Helper methods to save and restore instance state of activities and fragments.
ItemsAdapter & LayoutItemsAdapter
BaseAdapter implementations to be used with java.util.List. LayoutItemsAdapter class provides methods to populate any ViewGroup with views from adapter with optional views recycling mechanism.
KeyboardHelper
Helper methods to show / hide keyboard and listen for keyboard state.
Convertable & ConvertUtils
Helper utils to convert one set of objects into another.
ThreadSafeDateFormatter
Thread safe wrapper for SimpleDateFormatter.
ISO8601DateFormatter
ISO 8601 date parser and formatter.
FillWidthImageView
ImageView that will be scaled to fit entire available width preserving aspect ratio (by adjusting view's height). It is also possible to set aspect ratio of the image before it is loaded into the view.
BoundedFrameLayout & BoundedLinearLayout & BoundedRelativeLayout
Base view groups implementations that allows setting maxWidth and maxHeight.
License
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
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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