View Types

Abstraction to build adapters with dynamic/variable view types count for Android application. It eliminates the need to manually define view types (via Enum<?>, or if you follow Google Developers advice integer constants (less memory usage, you know!)). Makes code readable and actually share view types across multiple screens (no need to write a new adapter, or add view types handling in one base adapter with endless switch statement).

Please note, RecyclerView only.

Installation

Add a dependency into your build.gradle:

compile `ru.noties:vt:1.0.0`

If you don't have RecyclerView dependency in your project already, you must add it also:

// at the time of writing the latest version is '25.0.0' // theoretically it should work with older versions as well, but I haven't tested it compile `com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:25.0.0`

Usage

final ViewTypesAdapter<One> adapter = ViewTypesAdapter.builder(One.class)

.register(One.class, new ViewTypeOne(), null) // will be not clickable

.register(Two.class, new ViewTypeTwo(), new OnItemClickListener<Two, HolderSingle<TextView>>() {

 @Override

 public void onItemClick(Two item, HolderSingle<TextView> holder) {

  
}

}
)

.register(Three.class, new ViewTypeOne())

.setHasStableIds(true)  //

 .registerOnDataSetChangedListener(new DiffUtilDataSetChanged<One>(true))

.registerOnDataSetChangedListener(new NotifyDataSetChanged<One>())

.registerOnClickListener(new OnItemClickListener<One, Holder>() {

 @Override

 public void onItemClick(One item, Holder holder) {

  Debug.i("class: `%s`, value: %s", item.getClass().getSimpleName(), item.oneValue);

 
}

}
)

.build(this);
 // context

ru.noties.vt.ViewType

The core class of this library is ru.noties.vt.ViewType<T, H extends Holder>, where T is the type of the item, and H a subclass of ru.noties.vt.Holder or ru.noties.vt.Holder itself if you don't have RecyclerView.ViewHolder specific logic.

public abstract class ViewType<T, H extends Holder> {

protected abstract H createView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup parent);

  protected abstract void bindView(Context context, H holder, T item, List<Object> payloads);

public long itemId(T item) {

return RecyclerView.NO_ID;
  
}
 
}

ru.noties.vt.Holder

public class Holder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

public Holder(View itemView) {

super(itemView);

  
}

public <V extends View> V findView(@IdRes int id) {

//noinspection unchecked

return (V) itemView.findViewById(id);

  
}
 
}

Has one utility method to automatically cast view. For example:

final TextView text = findView(R.id.text);

There is also HolderSingle if Holder holds exactly one view.

public class HolderSingle<V extends View> extends Holder {

public final V view;

public HolderSingle(View itemView) {

super(itemView);

//noinspection unchecked

view = (V) itemView;
  
}

public HolderSingle(View itemView, @IdRes int id) {

super(itemView);

view = findView(id);

  
}
 
}

For example:

// automatically cast whole view passed in constructor to TextView final HolderSingle<TextView> textHolder = new HolderSingle<>(itemView);
  // automatically cast view found by id `R.id.image` to ImageView final HolderSingle<ImageView> imageHolder = new HolderSingle<>(itemView, R.id.image);
  // textHolder.view -> TextView // imageHolder.view -> ImageView

ru.noties.vt.ViewTypesAdapter

Significant methods (without implementation):

public class ViewTypesAdapter<T> extends RecyclerView.Adapter<Holder> {

// [0]
  public static <T> ViewTypesAdapter.Builder<T> builder(Class<T> base)

// [1]
  public ViewTypes viewTypes()

// [2]
  public <ITEM extends T> void setItems(@Nullable List<ITEM> items)

// [3]
  public <ITEM extends T> void changeItems(List<ITEM> items)

// [4]
  public List<T> getItems()

// [5]
  public <ITEM extends T> ITEM getItem(int position)

// [6]
  public <ITEM extends T> ITEM getItemAs(int position, Class<ITEM> itemClass) 
}

• [0] - returns ru.noties.vt.ViewTypesAdapter.Builder to configure this instance of adapter. Adapter can be created via this builder only.
• [1] - returns ru.noties.vt.ViewTypes generated by builder and which posses some important information about current view types (assigned view types, view types count)
• [2] - starts process of updating items that this adapter displays (triggers notification)
• [3] - swaps items without notification must be used by ru.noties.vt.OnDataSetChangedListener only
• [4] - returns items that this adapter has (can be null, if no items present)
• [5] - returns and automatically casts item at specified position
• [6] - returns item at specified position and casts it to the specified class parameter

ru.noties.vt.ViewTypesAdapter.Builder

This class contains all configuration that ViewTypesAdapter need

public static class Builder<T> {

  // constructor
  public Builder(Class<T> base)

// [0]
  public <VIEW_TYPE_TYPE extends T, ACTUAL_TYPE extends VIEW_TYPE_TYPE, HOLDER extends Holder> Builder<T> register(

@NonNull Class<ACTUAL_TYPE> itemClass,

@NonNull ViewType<VIEW_TYPE_TYPE, HOLDER> viewType
  )

// [1]
  public <VIEW_TYPE_TYPE extends T, ACTUAL_TYPE extends VIEW_TYPE_TYPE, ON_CLICK_TYPE extends T, HOLDER extends Holder> Builder<T> register(

@NonNull Class<ACTUAL_TYPE> itemClass,

@NonNull ViewType<VIEW_TYPE_TYPE, HOLDER> viewType,

@Nullable OnItemClickListener<ON_CLICK_TYPE, HOLDER> click
  )

// [2]
  public <HOLDER extends Holder> Builder<T> registerOnClickListener(OnItemClickListener<T, HOLDER> click)

// [3]
  public Builder<T> registerOnDataSetChangedListener(OnDataSetChangedListener<T> onDataSetChangedListener)

// [4]
  public Builder<T> setHasStableIds(boolean hasStableIds)

// [5]
  public ViewTypesAdapter<T> build(@NonNull Context context) throws ViewTypesException 
}

• [0] - registers item with this adapter. The method signature is a bit monstrous, but it gives ability to share ViewType across multiple items. For example: register(String.class, ViewType<String, Holder>) and register<String.class, ViewType<CharSequence, Holder>) are both valid. Please note that even some items can share the same ViewType they will be treated as different view types (from adapter perspective)
• [1] - Almost the same as [0], but also adds OnItemClickListener. There are two cases: if passed listener is NULL, then this item won't be clickable. If passed listener is NOT NULL then this listener will be triggered event if default listener (from [2]) is set
• [2] - Registers default OnItemClickListener for all items registered via [0] method
• [3] - registers ru.noties.vt.OnDataSetChangedListener for this adapter. If this method wasn't called (or called with NULL) the default value of ru.noties.vt.NotifyDataSetChanged will be used
• [4] - corresponds with RecyclerView.Adapter.setHasStableIds method. When set it's wise to override the ViewType.itemId() method
• [5] - executes check for validity of data and returns ready-to-be-used ViewTypesAdapter. Throws ViewTypesException if this Builder instance was already built and if no items were registered via [0] or [1] methods

ru.noties.vt.OnDataSetChangedListener

This is class that evaluates the update logic of new items. It contains one method:

void onDataSetChanged(

ViewTypesAdapter adapter,

List<T> oldItems,

List<T> newItems );

There are 2 implementations of this interface that are bundled with this library: ru.noties.vt.NotifyDataSetChanged and ru.noties.vt.DiffUtilDataSetChanged. For example, ru.noties.vt.NotifyDataSetChanged implementation is as follows:

@Override public void onDataSetChanged(ViewTypesAdapter adapter, List<T> oldItems, List<T> newItems) {

  // please note that this listener must call `changeItems`, not `setItems`
  adapter.changeItems(newItems);

  adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
 
}

ru.noties.vt.DiffUtilDataSetChanged

ru.noties.vt.DiffUtilDataSetChanged is based on android.support.v7.util.DiffUtil. It has 4 constructors:

// [0] public DiffUtilDataSetChanged()  // [1] public DiffUtilDataSetChanged(boolean detectMoves)  // [2] public DiffUtilDataSetChanged(ItemsChecker<T> itemsChecker)  // [3] public DiffUtilDataSetChanged(ItemsChecker<T> itemsChecker, boolean detectMoves)

• [0] - is equvivalent of calling [3] with new SimpleItemsChecker<>() and false
• [1] - is equvivalent of calling [3] with new SimpleItemsChecker<>() and detectMoves
• [2] - is equvivalent of calling [3] with itemsChecker and false
• [3] - constructor that accepts all possible configuration items

public static abstract class ItemsChecker<T> {

public abstract boolean areItemsTheSame(T oldItem, T newItem);

  public abstract boolean areContentsTheSame(T oldItem, T newItem);

@Nullable
  public Object getChangePayload(T oldItem, T newItem) {

return null;
  
}
 
}

public static class SimpleItemsChecker<T> extends ItemsChecker<T> {

@Override
  public boolean areItemsTheSame(T oldItem, T newItem) {

return oldItem == newItem;
  
}

@Override
  public boolean areContentsTheSame(T oldItem, T newItem) {

return (oldItem == null && newItem == null)

  || (oldItem != null && newItem != null && oldItem.equals(newItem));

  
}
 
}

ru.noties.vt.OnItemClickListener

public interface OnItemClickListener<T, H extends Holder> {

  void onItemClick(T item, H holder);
 
}

ru.noties.vt.ViewTypes

Instance can be obtained via ViewTypesAdapter.viewTypes() method.

// [0] public boolean supportsDataSet(List objects)  // [1] public boolean supports(Class<?> first, Class<?>... others)  // [2] public int viewTypeCount()  // [3] public ViewType viewType(@NonNull Object item) throws ViewTypesException  // [4] public ViewType viewType(int assignedViewType) throws ViewTypesException  // [5] public int assignedViewType(@NonNull Object item) throws ViewTypesException  // [6] public int assignedViewType(@NonNull Class<?> cl) throws ViewTypesException

• [0] - returns BOOLEAN showing that all items contain in the list have registered ViewType
• [1] - returns BOOLEAN showing that all passed Classes have registered ViewType
• [2] - returns total number of registered view types
• [3] - returns ViewType associated with provided item. Throws ViewTypesException is no ViewType is registered for this item
• [4] - returns ViewType associated with provided assignedViewType (returned by [5] or [6] method call). Throws ViewTypesException if no ViewType is associated with assignedViewType
• [5] - equvivalent of calling [6] with item.getClass() as a parameter
• [6] - returns assigned view type for this Class. Throws ViewTypesException if class has no associated view type

License

  Copyright 2016 Dimitry Ivanov ([email protected])
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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