Updated 14 December 2016
‘sup developers. Today we are going to create a custom view class that will add certain fuctionality in our application.
In magento, to express a field to be required, magento by default add a ‘*’ in front of it.
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To add this functionality, normally we write some boring code. Why can we do like this:
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android:isRequired="true" or myTextView.isRequired(true); |
and we get the same functionality
Yes, this possible. Here comes our CUSTOM VIEWS
What we have to do in order to create custom view.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <!--attribute set--> <declare-styleable name="RequiredTextView"> <!--attribute name--> <attr name="isRequired" format="boolean"></attr> </declare-styleable> </resources> |
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public class RequiredTextView extends TextView { private boolean isRequired; public RequiredTextView(Context context) { super(context); } public RequiredTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); TypedArray a = context.getTheme().obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.RequiredTextView, 0, 0); Log.d("DEBUG", "a.length()"+a.length()); try { isRequired = a.getBoolean(R.styleable.RequiredTextView_isRequired, false); Log.d("DEBUG", "isRequired" + isRequired); } finally { a.recycle(); } changeToIsRequired(); } public RequiredTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) { super(context, attrs, defStyle); TypedArray a = context.getTheme().obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.RequiredTextView, 0, 0); try { isRequired = a.getBoolean(R.styleable.RequiredTextView_isRequired, false); Log.d("DEBUG", "isRequired" + isRequired); } finally { a.recycle(); } changeToIsRequired(); } private void changeToIsRequired() { //get the attributes specified in attrs.xml using the name we included if (isRequired) { this.setText(this.getText() + "*"); invalidate(); } } protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { super.onDraw(canvas); } } |
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<com.mobikul.mobikulbaselibrary.RequiredTextView xmlns:requiredTextView="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Subject" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" requiredTextView:isRequired="true" /> |
Note: Don’t forget to use namespace. For gradle project use this:
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xmlns:myNs="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" |
Custom Views plays an important role. They not only makes the work easier but they SAVE OUR LIFEs.
That’s all folk’s Stay tuned!!!
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