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Android-AppMsg Library

In-layout android notifications

License

License
GroupId

GroupId

com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg
ArtifactId

ArtifactId

appmsg
Last Version

Last Version

1.2.0
Release Date

Release Date
Type

Type

aar
Description

Description

Android-AppMsg Library
In-layout android notifications
Project URL

Project URL

https://github.com/johnkil/Android-AppMsg
Source Code Management

Source Code Management

https://github.com/johnkil/Android-AppMsg

Download appmsg

Filename Size
appmsg-1.2.0.pom
appmsg-1.2.0.aar 12 KB
appmsg-1.2.0-sources.jar 7 KB
appmsg-1.2.0-javadoc.jar 261 bytes
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How to add to project

<!-- https://jarcasting.com/artifacts/com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg/appmsg/ -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg</groupId>
    <artifactId>appmsg</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.0</version>
    <type>aar</type>
</dependency>
// https://jarcasting.com/artifacts/com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg/appmsg/
implementation 'com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg:appmsg:1.2.0'
// https://jarcasting.com/artifacts/com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg/appmsg/
implementation ("com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg:appmsg:1.2.0")
'com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg:appmsg:aar:1.2.0'
<dependency org="com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg" name="appmsg" rev="1.2.0">
  <artifact name="appmsg" type="aar" />
</dependency>
@Grapes(
@Grab(group='com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg', module='appmsg', version='1.2.0')
)
libraryDependencies += "com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg" % "appmsg" % "1.2.0"
[com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg/appmsg "1.2.0"]

Dependencies

There are no dependencies for this project. It is a standalone project that does not depend on any other jars.

Project Modules

There are no modules declared in this project.

Android AppMsg (Crouton) Library

Implementation of in-layout notifications. Based on Toast notifications and article The making of Prixing #4: in-layout notifications by Cyril Mottier.

Description

Toast is far from being perfect and I am not entirely satisfied with it. Toast can be un-accurate in some cases. Indeed, Toast has one major drawback: it completely breaks contexts. This issue can be reproduced effortless. Let’s say a user is currently in an app firing a Toast and wants to switch to another application using the dedicated “multitask” button. The Toast will remain on screen even if the brought-to-front application has nothing do to with the previously shown app as described on the following figure: Example Image

As you can easily notice, the problem with Toasts is they are persistent. Once a Toast has been fired, it is displayed on top of any screen and remains visible for the duration specified at its creation.

In order to bypass the Toast persistence problem and ensure information is displayed in the correct context, we decided to create a new notification system: Activity-bound notifications. This is what it looks like in the current version of Prixing: Example Image

Crouton overcomes the main issue of having a Toast being shown while the menu is open. It sticks to the current screen sliding with it and leaving the menu completely free of any information that would have not been related to it.

Copyright (C) by Cyril Mottier

Sample

A sample application is available on Google Play:

Get it on Google Play

Example Image

The source code is available in this repository.

Compatibility

This library is compatible from API 4 (Android 1.6).

Installation

The sample project requires:

Usage

Android AppMsg is presented as an Android library project. You can include this project by referencing it as a library project in Eclipse or ant.

To display the item you need the following code:

  • Show AppMsg:
AppMsg.makeText(/*Activity*/, /*CharSequence*/, /*AppMsg.Style*/).show();

Gradle

Android-AppMsg Library is now pushed to Maven Central as a AAR, so you just need to add the following dependency to your build.gradle.

dependencies {
	implementation 'com.github.johnkil.android-appmsg:appmsg:1.2.0'
}

Example Gradle project using Android-AppMsg:

Contribution

Please fork dev repository and contribute back using pull requests.

Contributors are recommended to follow the Android Code Style Guidelines.

Any contributions, large or small, major features, bug fixes, additional language translations, unit/integration tests are welcomed and appreciated but will be thoroughly reviewed and discussed.

Developed By

License

Copyright 2012 Evgeny Shishkin

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Versions

Version
1.2.0
1.1.1