petrnohejl / android-templates-and-utilities

Collection of source codes, utilities, templates and snippets for Android development.

Android Templates and Utilities [DEPRECATED]

Android Templates and Utilities are deprecated. I started with this project in 2012. Android ecosystem has changed a lot since then. There is a new programming language Kotlin, Android Jetpack components, RxJava and other technologies. These templates are written in Java and are not up to date.

Android Templates and Utilities is a collection of source codes, utilities, templates and snippets for Android development. It helps to build new apps and shows the best way how to implement certain things on Android platform.

I write these templates for my personal need. I use it almost every day for developing apps. It is something like cookbook for me. All my apps are based on these templates.

Note that all reusable utilities and classes have been moved to a new standalone library Alfonz. These templates use Alfonz as a dependency.

Content

In this repo you can find templates for styling app, handling activity result, working with alarm manager, animations, sending and receiving broadcasts, using dual pane layout, loading and caching images, working with intents, map, navigation drawer, showing notifications, working with parcelable, preferences, running service, setting SSL connection, timer, working with view pager, webview and much more. All templates were tested and should be compatible with Android 4.1 (API level 16).

Android Templates and Utilities are organized into 3 groups:

• Base - basic skeleton of the Android project
• Res - resource code including xml files, images
• Src - source code including classes, resources

Usage

How to use these templates? Just copy a template into your project, rename package "com.example" to your own package name, rename classes' or resource's names if you want and customize the code to your needs. Some templates have /src/fragment/ExampleFragment.java class which demonstrates how to use the template in a Fragment.

Example

Example of creating a basic app skeleton with 1 Activity and 1 Fragment via Android Studio:

• Create a new Android project with package name "com.example"
• Copy & paste Base
• Copy & paste Res-Placeholder
• Copy & paste Res-Strings
• Copy & paste Res-Theme
• Copy & paste Src-Application-Class
• Copy & paste Src-Config
• Copy & paste Src-MVC-Activity
• Copy & paste Src-MVC-Fragment
• Add Alfonz dependencies in /mobile/build.gradle
• Initialize Logcat utility inside ExampleApplication.onCreate(): Logcat.init(ExampleConfig.LOGS, "EXAMPLE");
• Open ExampleActivity.java and comment out onCreateOptionsMenu(...) and onOptionsItemSelected(...) methods
• Build the project and voilà, we have a basic MVC skeleton for our future app

Developed by

Petr Nohejl

License

Copyright 2012 Petr Nohejl

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

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android-templates-and-utilities's Issues

Creating an example goes wrong

I'm new to Android Studio and I have issues creating an example. Could you give me more details please?

Non-translatable string in strings.xml is missing the appropriate attribute

Just saw the strings.xml and wanted to point out that for any non-translatable string, you should add translatable="false".

For example:

<string name="app_name"  translatable="false">Example</string>

More about Non-translatable Strings.

Discussion: Android Native Frameworks & Tools Review

This is not an issue. I apologize for using this medium but GitHub doesn't leave much choice for communication. Please feel free to close the issue at any time

I did a small research on the current Android RAD tools and frameworks. I included your project and I felt it's only fair to inform you and all the other projects generous developers of it:
http://andyonwheels.github.io/Android-Native-Frameworks-Review/

I hope that you see benefit from looking at what others are doing and such. If you have any feedback please do let me know.

I'm also trying to gauge the interest of the community in having/building something on a bigger scale. Not sure what that should be so I built an app a survey for it. I hope experienced Android devs such as yourself would take a look at. Thank you.

Screenshots for all examples

It would be great if each template should has own screenshot.