How would you go about supporting more than one ce...
# splittiesn
nickk
08/13/2019, 11:44 AMHow would you go about supporting more than one cell type in RecyclerView? I would like to implement a data-driven approach that draws a different view according to what the current item of a list specifies.
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 11:49 AMMultiple ways. Manual way.
Or using one of these libraries (unordered):
- Epoxy (from Airbnb)
- Groupie (from LisaWray)
- RecylerView delegates AdapterDelegates (no ambiguity)
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nickk
08/13/2019, 12:08 PMWhat do you mean “no ambiguity”?
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 12:54 PMI didn't remember the name of the author, but RecyclerView is easier to Google that common words like epoxy and groupie which have non technical meanings before being library names
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nickk
08/13/2019, 12:55 PMWell, Groupie seems very nice…
I guess creating the views with Splitties DSL is straight forward.
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 12:57 PMBTW, the author is looking for maintainers: https://twitter.com/lisawrayz/status/1160981822529892352
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nickk
08/13/2019, 12:59 PMI like that it doesn’t impose on you to use custom Annotations, like Epoxy does.
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 1:01 PMAh yes, also it won't slow your build down because of kapt 🙂
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nickk
08/13/2019, 1:02 PMBTW, I did not spot the 3rd lib (there is some ambiguity, after all 😉 )
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 1:02 PMIt's because I was wrong on the name. It's "AdapterDelegates": https://github.com/sockeqwe/AdapterDelegates
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nickk
08/13/2019, 1:20 PMWell, the
getLayout() Copy code
// GroupAdapter.Java: 170
@Override
@NonNull
public VH onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext());
Item<VH> item = getItemForViewType(viewType);
View itemView = inflater.inflate(item.getLayout(), parent, false);
return item.createViewHolder(itemView);
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 1:36 PMShould I respond "Me!" to Lisa and add the feature?
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nickk
08/13/2019, 1:37 PMWell I guess we need a
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 1:45 PMI'd start by forking and try to add it, or opening an issue.
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nickk
08/13/2019, 1:47 PMOK. I’ll create a fork. I guess they will appreciate a PR more than opening an issue.
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 2:04 PMProbably 🙂 I'll be happy to review it if you want.
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nickk
08/13/2019, 2:07 PMHmm… This I do not like:
“The Item class gives you simple callbacks to bind your model object to the generated fields. Because of Kotlin Android extensions, there’s no need to write a view holder.”
Without an XML layout, we will have to manually code the ViewHolder. Or am I missing something?
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 2:10 PMNope, you only need the type of your View, and you'll have all the properties. FYI, I made a Splitties module to have
ViewHolder2 Views