yippeeapp / fancybuttons

An Android library to easily create fancy buttons without the need of drawable files.

FancyButtons

I've always found some difficulties to make great Android buttons, since I need to override everything or make lot of drawables files to handle focus, pressed and normal states. For that reason, I made Fancy Buttons, to make this redundant task much easier.

Overview

FancyButtons, helps you to easily create fancy buttons without the need of drawable files.

Demo Application : Download APK

Features

• Border (stroke, radius, color)
• Background (normal, focus)
• Icon (Drawable, font icon)
  • FontAwesome
  • Custom font
• Icon (Position, size)
  • right
  • left
  • top
  • bottom
• Icon Size
• Icon Padding

Including in your project : Maven Central

compile 'com.github.medyo:fancybuttons:1.5@aar'

Usage

1 - Include FancyButtons namespace to the root element :

xmlns:fancy="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

2 - Add the FancyButton View with custom params :

<mehdi.sakout.fancybuttons.FancyButton
android:id="@+id/btn_preview"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

Supported Attributs

XML Attribut	Java Attribut	Description
fancy:fb_text	setText(String)	Text of the button
fancy:fb_textColor	setTextColor(int)	Text Color of the button
fancy:fb_textSize	setTextSize(int)	Size of the text
fancy:fb_textFont	setCustomTextFont(String)	FontFamily of the text
fancy:fb_textGravity	setTextGravity(Int)	Gravity of the text
fancy:fb_iconResource	setIconResource(Drawable)	Drawable icon of the button
fancy:fb_iconPosition	setsetIconPosition(int)	Position of the icon : Left, Right, Top, Bottom
fancy:fb_fontIconResource	setIconResource(String)	font icon of the button
fancy:fb_fontIconSize	setFontIconSize(int)	Size of the icon
fancy:fb_iconFont	setCustomIconFont(String)	FontFamily of the icon
fancy:fb_borderWidth	setBorderWidth(int)	Width of the border
fancy:fb_borderColor	setBorderColor(int)	Color of the border
fancy:fb_defaultColor	setBackgroundColor(int)	Background color of the button
fancy:fb_focusColor	setFocusBackgroundColor(int)	Focus Color of border background
fancy:fb_radius	setRadius(int)	Radius of the button
fancy:fb_iconPaddingLeft	setIconPadding(int,int,int,int)	Icon Padding
fancy:fb_iconPaddingRight	setIconPadding(int,int,int,int)	Icon Padding
fancy:fb_iconPaddingTop	setIconPadding(int,int,int,int)	Icon Padding
fancy:fb_iconPaddingBottom	setIconPadding(int,int,int,int)	Icon Padding
fancy:fb_ghost	setGhost(boolean)	Ghost (Hollow)

Supported Getters

| Function | Description | | ------------- |:-------------:| -----:| | getText() | Returns Text Value of the button| | getTextViewObject() | Returns TextView Object| | getIconFontObject() | Returns icon defined by fb_fontIconResource| | getIconImageObject() | Returns icon defined by fb_iconResource |

Sample

1 - Spotify Button

<mehdi.sakout.fancybuttons.FancyButton
	android:id="@+id/btn_spotify"
	android:layout_width="wrap_content"
	android:layout_height="wrap_content"
	android:paddingBottom="10dp"
	android:paddingLeft="20dp"
	android:paddingRight="20dp"
	android:paddingTop="10dp"
	fancy:fb_borderColor="#FFFFFF"
	fancy:fb_borderWidth="1dp"
	fancy:fb_defaultColor="#7ab800"
	fancy:fb_focusColor="#9bd823"
	fancy:fb_fontIconResource="&#xf04b;"
	fancy:fb_iconPosition="left"
	fancy:fb_radius="30dp"
	fancy:fb_text="SHUFFLE PLAY"
	fancy:fb_textColor="#FFFFFF" />

2 - Facebook Button

FancyButton facebookLoginBtn = new FancyButton(this);
facebookLoginBtn.setText("Login with Facebook");
facebookLoginBtn.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#3b5998"));
facebookLoginBtn.setFocusBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#5474b8"));
facebookLoginBtn.setTextSize(17);
facebookLoginBtn.setRadius(5);
facebookLoginBtn.setIconResource("\uf082");
facebookLoginBtn.setIconPosition(FancyButton.POSITION_LEFT);
facebookLoginBtn.setFontIconSize(30);

See the example project for more samples

Bonus

Fancybuttons is delivered with :

• 1 font : RobotoRegular
• 1 icon Font : FontAwesome ( cheatsheet http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/cheatsheet/)

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FAQ

How to add new fonts ?
Just Paste your font inside assets/fonts/ folder for Text fonts or inside assets/iconfonts/ for icon fonts eg : entypo

Contributions

Fancybuttons needs you to build the missing features :

• Supporting Circular buttons
• Supporting Lollipop Ripple effect

Licence

MIT http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Developed By

El Mehdi Sakout

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For contact, shoot me an email at [email protected]