lucasr/dspec

[DEPRECATED] Define and render UI specs on top of your Android UI

dspec's Issues

Support for mathematical calculations

Adding support for basic calculations in the size and offset fields would improve readablilty:

{
    "keylines": [
        {
            "offset": 56,
            "from": "TOP"
        }, {
            "offset": 56 + 24,
            "from": "TOP"
        }, {
            "offset": 56 + (2 * 24),
            "from": "TOP"
        }
    ]
}

Generalise resource loading behind interface

So that dspec users can implement their spec input format whenever necessary.

Support for percentage widths

It's be great to have percentage values supported in the offset and size fields.

For example:

{
"keylines": [
    {
        "offset": 50%,
        "from": "LEFT"
    }, {
        "offset": 50%,
        "from": "TOP"
    },
}

DesignSpec as Drawable.

What about Drawable adapter to design spec?
I see following use case for it.

public class DesignSpecDrawable extends Drawable {
    private final DesignSpec mDesignSpec;

    public DesignSpecDrawable(DesignSpec designSpec) {
        mDesignSpec = designSpec;
    }

    @Override
    public void draw(Canvas canvas) {
        if (mDesignSpec != null) {
            mDesignSpec.draw(canvas);
        }
    }

    /* ... */
}

setContentView(R.layout.main_activity);
/* Resolve views here */

View decorView = getWindow().getDecorView();
mDesignSpec = DesignSpec.fromResource(decorView, R.raw.main_activity_spec);
DesignSpecDrawable drawable = new DesignSpecDrawable(mDesignSpec);
decorView.getOverlay().add(drawable); 

The main advantage that is dspec now controlled from the code. It means we can now easily make it conditional, like:

if (BuildConfig.USE_DSPEC) {
  // ...
}

So it can be stripped from production builds with ease.

However, there is one problem ViewOverlays are only available since API 18 (JB 4.3). Although, we can still use it below this API level by setting it as background, or ImageView or so on, which is not so convient.

Cannot find dspec dependecy

My android studio cannot find dspec dependency, the aar file didn't help me. Is there a solution for this?

Set different colors

It could be great if we have the possibility to assign a specific color to each keyline and spacing.

Thanks!

Hugo

Unable to include using Gradle

compile 'org.lucasr.dspec:dspec:0.1.1'

Including dspec in a project using Gradle doesn't seem to work. Am I doing anything wrong?

addSpacing bug

addSpacing calls specifying DesignSpec.From.RIGHT do not render for some reason. To replicate, try addSpacing(0, 16, DesignSpec.From.RIGHT).

Support for api 10+

Can you explain why does it require ics?