FromTo


Source link: https://github.com/importre/fromto

FromTo

FromTo is a helper library that makes it simple to handle asynchronous actions with views for Android and Java/Kotlin.

This library is written in Kotlin. But it's interoperable with Java.

Installation

Set to your build.gradle.

repositories {

  jcenter() 
}
  dependencies {

  compile 'io.github.importre:fromto:<version>' 
}

Getting Started

// make your job val job = Observable.just(1)

.subscribeOn(Schedulers.newThread())  // define an action and handlers you want val action1 = FtAction.Builder<Int>()

.from(job)

.to {
 println(it) 
}

.build()  val fromTo = FromTo.create(action1/*, more if you want */)  // attach `view`(FtView) related with fromTo's lifecycle fromTo.attach(view).execute()  // you can know `loading` state via `view`  // detach when `view` is destroyed fromTo.detach()

Basically FromTo has an FtAction or more.
(You can think that FtAction is a wrapper class of rx.Observable.)
Given some actions, FromTo can execute all actions asynchronously. And FromTo notifies corresponding view of the loading state via FtView interface.

  • Synchronous or asynchronous action
    • Actually it's up to observable's schedule as you know.
  • The state is true if one of actions is working.

See details in Kotlin example

Example

See examples.

Test

./gradlew test

Why should I use it?

FromTo is useful when developing an app, which has lifecycle by itself.
In Android world, for example, An Activity(or a Fragment) can take some heavy tasks such as Network, DB, File I/O and/or something.

Assume that you are in two conditions.

  • two tasks are working asynchronously,
  • you have to show ProgressBar if started, hide it if finished.

In these cases, how do you resolve this problem if your screen is rotated?
I know and you know some solutions.

  • Do nothing.
    • Easy but bad UX. Everything will be always reloaded.
  • Prevent recreating activity.
    • Using android:configChanges of < activity> element. It's very easy but the layout is not flexible(on tablet especially).
  • Use AsyncTask, Handler or whatever. And Store/Restore data
    • Inconvenient, verbose 😭
  • Set Fragment.setRetainInstance(true)
    • The fragment is not recreated/destroyed. So the fragment can store what you want although parent activity is recreated.
    • It's good. But some guys wouldn't like to use Fragment.
  • Use RxJava
    • Observable's cache() is a blessing. 🎉
    • See Lifecycle section of this post.

I thought that RxJava is the best solution because it's very simple and convenient.
But I realized that there are still boilerplate codes. So I implemented FromTo simply.

License

Apache 2.0 © Jaewe Heo

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