why should I use your lib instead of anko?

@louiscad I thought of doing something similar. I ended up not doing so for a simple reason: I have to type fewer symbols with Anko. Seriously, that's the only reason. Your approach honestly makes more sense, and is simpler. It just involves more

::(),

Question for channel: do you guys still use Anko? It just seems like very few people do.

Also, trick I found: You can preview Anko without using the plugin by creating a custom view, executing the Anko there, and then inserting that custom view into an XML and previewing the XML.

I'm thinking of building the unholy abomination... a DSL like Anko for Android/iOS (Multi-OS Engine)/Desktop/Maybe web. I plan on making it really easy to insert a new view type. Any thoughts?

How to make

indeterminateProgressDialog

non cancellable? There is a

isCancelable

property for

alert

, but seems not the case for

indeterminateProgressDialog

, how to solve it?

How to add menu items to Anko's coordinator layout toolbar?

I don't like using XML Ids. The main reason that I'm using Anko is to escape from dealing with all the xml shenanigans

so we wanna use anko in a production app thats coming up. itll be an app heavily focused on reusable components. also components that resize easily, components that animate nicely etc etc. which seems like we'll need constraint layout. does anyone have any experience of using anko and constraint layouts in general? any input would be appreciate with anko in general or anko and constraint layouts 🙂

I have an alert with a custom view that I created with Anko. The alert has a editText and a positive and negative button. I want the positive button to be disabled until there is text in the editText. Does anyone know how to do this? When the text changes in my editText, I'm listening to it with a textChangedListener and setting a property that can be accessed from outside the DSL. But I can't seem to get access to the positive button from anywhere to enable or disable it.

private var instructionsView: DialogInterface? = null

    private fun showInstructionView() {
        instructionsView?.dismiss()
        instructionsView =
            context.alert {
                customView {
                    include<View>(R.layout.instruction_view)
                }
                onCancelled { App.unwindToMainMenu() }
            }.show()

Is there any way to animate this so it fades into/out of view?

Is there any use case to have

doAsync

over general Android coroutines anymore? Especially if we only use

doAsync

and

uiThread

?

When updating anko layout from 0.10.5 to 0.10.6, I have experience many error about "lparams" function.

Aw I wanted to migrate to AndroidX but Anko didn't do it 😞 AndroidX has now been released!

Does Anko offer a special mechanism to deal with requesting permissions at runtime? Implementing it the "regular way", as it would be done in pure Java, seems pretty clunky and un-Kotlin to me.

I'm new to Anko and would like to know what is the best way of specifying the same layout params on more than one component?

With the new Kotlin coroutine release, Anko has deprecated the

onClick{ }

, any idea what to use instead?

I can use

delay()

in any coroutine, but not when using Anko's

doAsync { }

. What am I missing? How should I handle it?

Hi! Any idea why the themed version crashes, with

UnsupportedOperationException

?

themedEditText

works fine, for instance.

// fine
    textView("> Hello from code $count") {
    }

    // crashes
    themedTextView("> Hello from code $count", theme = R.style.TextLarge2) {
    }

AS 3.2, anko 0.10.8

Is it possible to set style?

@david.bilik @louiscad Since themes and styles differ only in the scope they are applied to (as stated in the linked blog post), why am I getting different results?

@hhariri I have built my app based on anko. Many people here feel it is abandoned. Is Anko going to be updated for AndroidX? Apart from words and personal impressions: Github reports the androidx branch under the “*stale*” tab. No branch is reported as active. Should I ditch months of work and stop using anko?

I think that many times good devs from Jetbrains work on a good community project. It gets very good and very big. After some time, the good JB dev is reassigned to do some more important work, and the project stays abandoned for a lot of time. This isn't the first project this kind of thing happened 😕

Is there any alternative to Anko? I can’t justify starting a new app without androidx...

Hey guys, I’m working on a solution for building layouts using pure Kotlin. It’s more of a research kind of thing at the moment so bare with me. Here’s a quick demo, link to the repo in the video description. Let me know your thoughts!

Hello, I'm new to Android and Anko as a whole and am struggling to make the connection between my business logic, my activity and the layout. Does Anko have any data-binding sort of ordeal for it's layouts and what is the practice for returning that data back to the activity, a public function accessed from an onClick or something else?

@vyacheslav.gerasimov Hi there! What are your plans regarding AndroidX support in anko? 5 months ago I was told by @yan that you will complete work on AndroidX. I am about to start a new project, and I am puzzled. I want to reuse anko code from another project, and I am hesitating. @hhariri Don’t you feel that a 15.000 stars project deserves some love?

hi folks, I haven’t used anko, I’m trying to understand more. But, I got confused in the repository, I found this:

implementation "org.jetbrains.anko:anko-sdk25:$anko_version" // sdk15, sdk19, sdk21, sdk23 are also available

But, what is the difference between

sdk25

and others? I mean, if my android project is supporting a minimum target of sdk 19, I should import all the anko sdks from 19 to 25 ?