ShimmerLayout

ShimmerLayout can be used to add shimmer effect (like the one used at Facebook or at LinkedIn) to your Android application. Beside memory efficiency even animating a big layout, you can modify the shimmer color and the speed of the animation as well.

Download and usage

Get the latest artifact via gradle

compile 'io.supercharge:shimmerlayout:1.0.2'

Create the layout on which you want to apply the effect and add as a child of a ShimmerLayout

<io.supercharge.shimmerlayout.ShimmerLayout

android:id="@+id/shimmer_text"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="40dp"

android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"

android:layout_marginTop="50dp"

android:paddingLeft="30dp"

android:paddingRight="30dp"

app:shimmer_animation_duration="1200">

 <TextView

 android:layout_width="wrap_content"

 android:layout_height="match_parent"

 android:gravity="center"

 android:text="ShimmerLayout"

 android:textColor="@color/shimmer_background_color"

 android:textSize="26sp"/>
  </io.supercharge.shimmerlayout.ShimmerLayout>

Last, but not least you have to start it from your Java code

ShimmerLayout shimmerText = (ShimmerLayout) findViewById(R.id.shimmer_text);
 shimmerText.startShimmerAnimation();

Further reading

• The development of ShimmerLayout - In this article you can read why we created this library and the technologies we used.

License

ShimmerLayout is opensource, contribution and feedback are welcome!

Apache Version 2.0

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Author

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