An Android responsive UI building tool.
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This is an Android responsive UI build tool designed to focus on Real-time code building UI.
The name is taken from the original song "Haruhikage" in "BanG Dream It's MyGO!!!!!".
Why...
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Unlike Jetpack Compose's declarative UI, Hikage focuses on Android native platforms, and its design goal is to enable developers to quickly build UIs and directly support Android native components.
Hikage is just a UI build tool and does not provide any UI components themselves.
Rejecting duplicate wheels, our solution is always compatible and efficient. Now you can abandon ViewBinding and XML and even findViewById and try
to use the code layout directly.
The properties in Android view will be automatically generated with the Gradle plugin, and you can use it like in XML.
It does not need to consider how to complete complex attribute settings in the code, especially some third-party libraries do not provide dynamic modifications to their custom views.
Original layout
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="16dp">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/text_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hello, World!"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="16dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="16dp"
android:gravity="center" />
<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
android:id="@+id/button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Click Me!"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:backgroundTint="#FF0000"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="16dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="16dp"
android:gravity="center" />
</LinearLayout>Using Hikage
// Using Hikage to build a layout requires a UI Context.
val context: Context
// Make sure the Context is UI Context.
if (!context.isUiContext) return
// Start building the layout, be careful to make sure the context parameter is initialized.
// According to the Android native component features,
// the attributes (`attrs`) after layout construction will be fixed and cannot be modified dynamically.
val hikage = Hikageable(
context = context,
// You can also customize the actions after each view is created.
onViewCreated = { name, view ->
// ...
}
) {
LinearLayout(
attrs = {
android.layout_width = MATCH_PARENT
android.layout_height = MATCH_PARENT
android.orientation = VERTICAL
android.padding = 16.dp
},
// You can manually specify layout parameters.
lpparams = {
gravity = Gravity.CENTER
}
) {
TextView(
// Set the ID using string form, you can use large camel, small camel,
// or underscore form, which will be converted to small camel form when generated.
id = "text_view",
// You can set properties directly using attrs without considering who they belong to.
attrs = {
android.layout_width = WRAP_CONTENT
android.layout_height = WRAP_CONTENT
android.text = "Hello, World!"
android.textSize = 16.sp
android.textColor = Color.BLACK
android.layout_marginTop = 16.dp
android.layout_marginStart = 16.dp
android.layout_marginEnd = 16.dp
android.layout_marginBottom = 16.dp
android.gravity = Gravity.CENTER
// Or use string form to set properties (note that there is no spelling check).
namespace("android") {
set("id", R.id.text_view)
set("layout_margin", 16.dp)
set("layout_gravity", Gravity.CENTER)
// ...
}
},
// You can also manually specify layout parameters.
lpparams = {
gravity = Gravity.CENTER
},
// Perform initialization operations.
// You can also manually set properties.
initialize = {
text = "Hello, World!"
textSize = 16f
setTextColor(Color.BLACK)
// Or more operations.
doOnLayout {
// ...
}
}
)
// Use third-party views.
View<MaterialButton>(
id = "button",
attrs = {
android.layout_width = WRAP_CONTENT
android.layout_height = WRAP_CONTENT
android.text = "Click Me!"
android.textSize = 16.sp
android.textColor = Color.WHITE
android.backgroundTint = Color.RED
android.layout_marginTop = 16.dp
android.layout_marginStart = 16.dp
android.layout_marginEnd = 16.dp
android.layout_marginBottom = 16.dp
android.gravity = Gravity.CENTER
}
)
}
}
// Get the root layout.
val root = hikage.root
// You can also convert it to the type of the first layout, equivalent to hikage.root as LinearLayout.
// Thanks to Kotlin's features, using Hikageable(...) { ... }.rootAsType() directly does not require filling in generics.
val root = hikage.rootAsType<LinearLayout>()
// Set to Activity.
setContentView(root)
// Get the built layout internal components (first solution).
val textView = hikage.textView
val button = hikage.button
// Get the built layout internal components (second solution).
val textView = hikage.get<TextView>("text_view")
val button = hikage.get<MaterialButton>("button")Unlike XML, Hikage does not support live previews, but you can inherit the HikagePreview provided by Hikage,
and pass in your layout, and then view the preview in the pane on the right of Android Studio.
You can also use isInEditMode in your code to avoid displaying actual logical code that cannot be displayed in preview mode.
class MyPreview(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet?) : HikagePreview(context, attrs) {
override fun onPreview(): Hikage {
// Return to your layout.
return Hikageable {
Button(
attrs = {
android.layout_width = WRAP_CONTENT
android.layout_height = WRAP_CONTENT
android.text = "Click Me!"
}
)
}
}
}Note HikagePreview is for preview only and should not be used in actual code, otherwise an exception will be thrown.
Hikage may have plans to support Java, but Kotlin is still recommended.
This project is still a work in progress. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to open an issue or a pull request.
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