Shortify for Android
Shortify is used for minimizing your coding effort in your development environment. It has some builtin method and classes which helps you in creating mostly used element and tasks in Android app.
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Grab library via Gradle
compile 'net.dhruvpatel:shortify:1.2.4'or Maven
<dependency>
<groupId>net.dhruvpatel</groupId>
<artifactId>shortify</artifactId>
<version>1.2.4</version>
<type>pom</type> </dependency>Features
- Binding of views
- Binding of resources
- Customize views
- Parsing JSON data
- AJAX
- Event handlers
- Dialogs
- Other functions
How to use
Initialize library before using it in onCreate method
$.init(this);
Binding of any views
// Basic EditText editText = (EditText) context.findViewById(R.id.editText1);
com.example.view.CustomView customView = (com.example.view.CustomView) context.findViewById(R.id.view);
// Shortify EditText editText = $.bind(R.id.editText1);
com.example.view.CustomView customView = $.bind(R.id.view);
Binding of resources
// Basic String str = getApplicationContext().getString(R.string.app_name);
Drawable drawable = getApplicationContext().getDrawable(R.drawable.example);
Animation animation = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getApplicationContext(), R.anim.animation1);
// Shortify String str
= $.bindString(R.string.app_name);
Drawable drawable
= $.bindDrawable(R.drawable.example);
Animation animation = $.bindAnimation(R.anim.animation1);
. . . //List of binders $.bindString(R.string.example);
$.bindDimension(R.dimen.example);
$.bindAnimation(R.anim.example);
$.bindDrawable(R.drawable.example);
$.bindColor(R.color.example);
$.bindInteger(R.integer.example);
$.bindBoolean(R.bool.example);
Customize views
//Basic TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
textView.setText(getApplicationContext().getString(R.string.app_name));
textView.setTextColor(Color.BLUE);
textView.setTextSize(16f);
textView.setAllCaps(true);
Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.ALL);
//Shortify $.id(R.id.textView).text(R.string.app_name)
.color(Color.BLUE)
.size(16)
.allcapital()
.linkify();
Parsing JSON data
Shortify can parse long and complex JSON data in simplest way. You can parse any type of data like integer, long, double, boolean, String
int value = $.getIntFromJSON(path, JSON_STRING);
String str = $.getStringFromJSON(path, JSON_STRING);
long value = $.getLongFromJSON(path, JSON_STRING);
double value = $.getDoubleFromJSON(path, JSON_STRING);
; boolean value = $.getBooleanFromJSON(path, JSON_STRING);
Example 1
{ "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#", "title": "Product", "description": "A product from Acme's catalog", "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "description": "The unique identifier for a product", "type": "integer" } , "name": { "description": "Name of the product", "type": "string" } , "price": { "type": "number", "minimum": 0, "exclusiveMinimum": true } , "tags": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } , "minItems": 1, "uniqueItems": true } } , "required": ["id", "name", "price"] }
- Now suppose we want to get value of
properties > price > minimumint value = $.getStringFromJSON("properties.price.minimum", JSON_STRING);
- Suppose we want to get value of
properties > tags > items > typeString value = $.getStringFromJSON("properties.tags.items.type", JSON_STRING);
- If we want to get 2nd element of
requiredobjectString value = $.getStringFromJSON("required[1]", JSON_STRING);Example 2
This example has array of user and no object is assigned to whole array
[ { "name":{ "first": "first name 1", "last": "last name 1" } , "dob":{ "month": "January", "day": 1 } } , { "name":{ "first": "first name 2", "last": "last name 2" } , "dob":{ "month": "May", "day": 2 } } ]Now suppose we want to get value of 1st user's first name
String name = $.getStringFromJSON("[0].name.first", JSON_STRING);
AJAX
Shortify enables you to send AJAX request to server via both GET and POST method and it can also retrive response from webpage
GET method
$.httpGet("http://example.com/rest/api", new AJAX.AJAXCallback() { @Override public void onComplete(String response) { Log.d(TAG, response); } } );POST method
HashMap<String, Object> queryStringData = new HashMap<>(); queryStringData.put("name","Dhruv"); queryStringData.put("age",22); queryStringData.put("auth",true); $.httpPost("http://example.com/rest/api",queryStringData, new AJAX.AJAXCallback() { @Override public void onComplete(String response) { Log.d(TAG, response); } } );
Event handlers
//Basic Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
...
}
}
);
//Shortify
$.id(R.id.button).click(new Task() {
@Override
public void perform() {
...
}
}
);
Dialogs
//Simple alert dialog box $.alertDialog("Title","Description");
//Generates and shows dialog with OK button with onClick event handlers $.confirmDialog("Title", "Description", new Click() {
@Override
public void ok() {
}
}
);
//Generates and shows dialog with YES and NO button with onClick event handlers $.yesNoDialog("Title", "Description", new Agree() {
@Override
public void yes() {
}
@Override
public void no() {
}
}
);
Other functions
//Check, if app is installed or not in device $.checkIfAppInstalled(PKG_NAME);
//Open current or any other app page in Play store app $.openAppInStore();
$.openAppInStore(PKG_NAME);
//Showing toast $.toast(MESSAGE);
//Get current date and time in any format $.time("d m y");
//Check app permission (used for Runntime Permission Model) $.checkPermission(PERMISSION_STRING);
//Navigate to any activity with or without passing data $.open(Activity.class);
$.open(Activity.class, bundle);
Apps using Shortify for Android
| Apps | |
|---|---|
| Selfie Flashlight | |
| Material Music Player |
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