External Resources

Update your Android resources (strings, integers, booleans, ...) over the air.

Main features

• Use native Android resources or default raw JSON / XML files.
• Define your own URL builder which allow you calling your server with query strings or url params
• Define if a config change through onConfigurationChanged if the library should call your server.
• Cache based on Http last modified header.
• Event triggered when resources have changed.
• Event triggered when ressources loading has fail.
• Define your own converter. Json is the default one. This library also provide a Xml converter.
• Tested: > 120 tests.

Download

The libary is available on JCenter or MavenCentral Via Gradle:

compile 'fr.pierrickcaen:external-resources:2.0.1'

Via Maven:

<dependency>
  <groupId>fr.pierrickcaen</groupId>
  <artifactId>external-resources</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.1</version> </dependency>

Usage

Basic

1. Initialization:

a. Via a String base URL:

eg: If your base url is http://test.com/android-resources.json, it will be append by query parameters: http://test.com/android-resources.json?locale=fr_FR&density_dpi=320&screen_height_dp=100&navigation_hidden=0&...

 ```java

 public class SampleApplication extends Application {

@Override

  public void onCreate() {

super.onCreate();

 ExternalResources.initialize(this, "http://your-url.com/path.json");

  
}

@Override

  public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {

super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

 ExternalResources.getInstance().onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

  
}

  
}
  ``` 

b. Via URL implementation

 ```java

 public class SampleApplication extends Application {

@Override

  public void onCreate() {

  super.onCreate();

ExternalResources.initialize(this, new Url() {

 private Locale locale;

  @Override public void locale(locale locale) {

this.locale = locale;

 
}

  // ...

  @Override public String build() {

return "http://your-url.com/path.json?locale=" + locale;

 
}

}
);

  
}

@Override

  public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {

super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

 ExternalResources.getInstance().onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

  
}

  
}
  ``` 

2. Register & Unregister OnExternalResourcesChangeListener

   public class SampleActivity extends Activity implements OnExternalResourcesChangeListener {
   
   @Override protected void onResume() {
   
    super.onResume();
   
    ExternalResources.getInstance().register(this);
   
   }
   
    @Override protected void onPause() {
   
     ExternalResources.getInstance().unregister(this);
   
     super.onPause();
   
   }
   
   @Override public void onExternalResourcesChange(ExternalResources externalResources) {
   
     // TODO: update your view here.
   
   }
    
   }
   

3. Use resources as you wish

   • String via getString(@StringRes int resId) or getString(@NonNull String key) or getString(@StringRes int resId, Object... formatArgs) or getString(@NonNull String key, Object... formatArgs).
   • String array via getStringArray(@ArrayRes int resId) or getStringArray(@NonNull String key).
   • Boolean via getBoolean(@BoolRes int resId) or getBoolean(@NonNull String key)
   • Color via getColor(@ColorRes int resId) or getColor(@NonNull String key)
   • Dimension via getDimension(@DimenRes int resId) or getDimension(@NonNull String key)
   • Integer via getInteger(@IntegerRes int resId) or getInteger(@NonNull String key)
   • Int array via getIntArray(@ArrayRes int resId) or getIntArray(@NonNull String key)

   Warning!: If external resources is not found, these methods throws a NotFoundException.

Advanced

Default resources

In your application class add the following lines in onCreate:

@Override public void onCreate() {

  super.onCreate();

Resources defaults = Resources.fromJson(getAssets().open("defaults.json"))
  ExternalResources.Builder builder = new ExternalResources.Builder(this, new MyUrlImpl());

  builder.defaultResources(defaults);
 
}

Sample app

See the sample application available in sample-app/src/main

License

 Copyright (C) 2015 Pierrick CAEN (http://www.pierrickcaen.fr)
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.