Hi, anyone here has idea on when this issue will b...

# android

[wck]

Hi, anyone here has idea on when this issue will be fixed? We are planning on modularise our app but found kotlin android extension doesn’t support multi modules yet.

[pgreze]

I’ve modularized my app few weeks ago and using kotlin-extension without any issues

[pgreze]

I’ve probably never faced this issue because I’m creating custom views for my common layouts

[pgreze]

by doing so, I’m not facing include limitation when I’d like to add custom attributes to my view

[pgreze]

and I can easily create localized and common view logic inside these custom views 🙂

[wck]

oh great. Have you experienced using the view imports like kotlinx.android.synthetic when the view is in library?

[pgreze]

not really. I wasn’t sure if caching was working and was wishing to create an easy-to use API for my custom views while hiding implementation details like IDs. So I’ve created something like:

library XML:

<merge xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    tools:parentTag="io.zla.android.ui.widget.UserHeadersView">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/userCoverImage"
        ...>

Custom view in library:

class UserHeadersView @JvmOverloads constructor(
        context: Context,
        attrs: AttributeSet? = null,
        defStyle: Int = 0
) : ShimmerLayout(context, attrs, defStyle) {

    init {
        context.layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.layout_user_headers, this)
    }

    val coverImage: TextView = findViewById(R.id.userCoverImage)

Layout in app:

<my.package.UserHeadersView
    android:id="@+id/myUserHeadersView"

Client in app:

myUserHeadersView.coverImage.setDrawableXXX(....)

[pgreze]

That’s a basic example. Actually I’ve created other nice functions allowing me to just provide coverUrl and other fields and custom view is doing the boring work (use Picasso, data validation, etc)