Android Material Activity Chooser

This library allows to use Material activity choosers from Jelly Bean+ to e.g. share a text or a link using a nice Material dialog. Material activity choosers are displayed as bottom sheet dialogs. Bottom sheets are described here: https://material.google.com/components/bottom-sheets.html The actual implementation of activity choosers varies depending on the OS version. This library tries to mimic the activity chooser version you can see on Android Nougat e.g. on Nexus 6P.

Download (from JCenter)

compile 'com.github.zawadz88:material-activity-chooser:0.2.2'

Sample app

Supported features

showing the activity chooser as a bottom sheet dialog on all OS versions starting from Jelly Bean (API 16)+
a smooth animation when the items appear in the bottom sheet
setting custom bottom sheet titles
setting different intents per activity, e.g. to have different messages for different applications when sharing
use custom styles for the bottom sheet
setting a custom message/button text for the empty view when no activities are found
setting a custom view when no activities are found
adding a button which triggers a PendingIntent when clicked when no activities are found
adding custom actions when an activity was clicked
going to the chosen activity settings on long-click

Screenshots

Showcase

Sharing with MaterialActivityChooser

Sharing with the system IntentChooser on Nougat for comparison

Sharing with MaterialActivityChooser with custom style

Sharing with MaterialActivityChooser when no activities found

Sharing with MaterialActivityChooser when no activities found with a custom view

Getting started

Add Activity Chooser activity to AndroidManifest.xml

In AndroidManifest.xml add:

 <activity

android:name="com.github.zawadz88.activitychooser.MaterialActivityChooserActivity"

android:theme="@style/MACTheme" />

Showing an activity chooser

To show an activity chooser you need to pass it the intent as follows:

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(someIntent)

.show();

Choosing a custom dialog title

You can set a custom bottom sheet dialog title with either a String or a String resource ID, e.g.

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(someIntent)

.withTitle("Some custom title")

.show();

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(someIntent)

.withTitle(R.string.custom_share_title)

.show();

Using alternative intents for selected apps

It is possible to use alternative intents for selected applications instead of the main intent e.g. assuming you wanted to share a message, but you wanted to have a slightly different message for common Mail apps. This can be done by e.g.

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(shareIntent)

.withSecondaryIntent(alternativeShareIntent,

 "com.google.android.gm" /* GMail */,

 "com.google.android.apps.inbox" /* Inbox */,

 "com.microsoft.office.outlook" /* Microsoft Outlook */,

 "com.google.android.email" /* Default mail app */)

.show();

Choosing a custom empty view message

You can set a custom bottom sheet dialog empty view title with either a String or a String resource ID, e.g.

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(someIntent)

.withEmptyViewTitle("Some custom empty view title")

.show();

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(someIntent)

.withEmptyViewTitle(R.string.custom_empty_view_title)

.show();

Showing a button on empty view

You can show a button on the empty view which will trigger a PendingIntent once clicked. To do so you need to provide the PendingIntent with/without a button title, e.g.

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(someIntent)

.withEmptyViewAction(pendingIntent)

.show();

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(someIntent)

.withEmptyViewAction("Custom button title", pendingIntent)

.show();

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(someIntent)

.withEmptyViewAction(R.string.custom_button_title, pendingIntent)

.show();

Setting a custom empty view

You can inflate an entirely custom empty view as well, e.g.

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(context)

.withIntent(someIntent)

.withEmptyViewCustomView(R.layout.layout_custom_empty_view)

.show();

Styling the dialog to your own needs

You can override the default styling of the Activity Chooser to your own needs. The easiest way is to override the MACTheme and replace the styles in the custom attributes. For more info see the sample app.

Disabling the item animation

By default there is a layout animation on the RecyclerView which animates the items as they show up. It can be however disabled by extending the MACTheme and overriding mac_bottomSheetRecyclerViewStyle with a style with this animation disabled, e.g.

 <style name="NoAnimationRecyclerViewStyle" parent="MACBottomSheetRecyclerView">

<item name="android:layoutAnimation">@null</item>
  </style>

Tracking when an activity was clicked

You might want to track/log when an activity has been selected to handle your intent. To do so you can extend the default MaterialActivityChooserActivity.

public class TrackingActivityChooserActivity extends MaterialActivityChooserActivity {

...

@Override
  public void onActivityClicked(ResolveInfo activity) {

Toast.makeText(this, "Application clicked: " + activity.activityInfo.packageName, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

super.onActivityClicked(activity);

  
}
 
}

which needs to be declared in the AndroidManifest.xml

 <activity

android:name=".TrackingActivityChooserActivity"

android:theme="@style/MACTheme" />

and also declared when building the activity chooser:

 new MaterialActivityChooserBuilder(this)

.withIntent(getDefaultShareIntent())

.withActivity(TrackingActivityChooserActivity.class)

.show();

Testing

The library is tested mainly with Espresso + Cucumber as well as a few unit tests.

Instrumentation tests

To run instrumentation tests you need to execute:

./gradlew connectedDebugAndroidTest

This additionally fetches the Cucumber reports from the device and saves them to sample/build/reports/cucumber.

It is also recommended to install Cucumber for Java and Gherkin plugins in Android Studio for better Cucumber integration inside of the IDE.

Unit tests

To run unit tests you need to execute:

./gradlew testDebugUnitTest

Code coverage

Tests can be also executed with code coverage. To do so execute:

./gradlew jacocoTestReport

The coverage report can be then found at sample/build/reports/jacoco. This task cleans the project, runs the unit tests & instrumentation tests and at the end it creates the report.

Running selected scenarios only for instrumentation tests

All the tested scenarios have Cucumber tags. You can run a specific test by using this tag. Assuming you wanted to run only the scenario with tag @sample-scenario-22 you would do the following:

From command line:

./gradlew connectedDebugAndroidTest -Ptags="@sample-scenario-22"

In Android Studio you need to edit the current Android Tests run configuration and under Extra options enter:

-e tags @sample-scenario-22

Notes

This library comes with a number of dependencies.
It relies on the BottomSheetBehavior from Android Support Design Library and it uses a RecyclerView for displaying a list of items.

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 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.

Android Material Activity Chooser