A small, yet full-featured framework that allows building View-based Android applications
A small, yet full-featured framework that allows building View-based Android applications. Conductor provides a light-weight wrapper around standard Android Views that does just about everything you'd want:
| | Conductor | |-----------|-------------| :tada: | Easy integration :pointup: | Single Activity apps without using Fragments :recycle: | Simple but powerful lifecycle management :train: | Navigation and backstack handling :twistedrightwardsarrows: | Beautiful transitions between views :floppydisk: | State persistence :phone: | Callbacks for onActivityResult, onRequestPermissionsResult, etc :europeanpostoffice: | MVP / MVVM / MVI / VIPER / MVC ready
Conductor is architecture-agnostic and does not try to force any design decisions on the developer. We here at BlueLine Labs tend to use either MVP or MVVM, but it would work equally well with standard MVC or whatever else you want to throw at it.
implementation 'com.bluelinelabs:conductor:3.0.0'// AndroidX Transition change handlers: implementation 'com.bluelinelabs:conductor-androidx-transition:3.0.0'
// ViewPager PagerAdapter: implementation 'com.bluelinelabs:conductor-viewpager:3.0.0'
// ViewPager2 Adapter: implementation 'com.bluelinelabs:conductor-viewpager2:3.0.0'
// RxJava2 lifecycle support: implementation 'com.bluelinelabs:conductor-rxlifecycle2:3.0.0'
// RxJava2 Autodispose support: implementation 'com.bluelinelabs:conductor-autodispose:3.0.0'
// Lifecycle-aware Controllers (architecture components): implementation 'com.bluelinelabs:conductor-archlifecycle:3.0.0'
SNAPSHOT
Just use
3.0.1-SNAPSHOTas your version number in any of the dependencies above and add the url to the snapshot repository:
allprojects { repositories { maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/" } } }
| | Conductor Components | ------|------------------------------ Controller | The Controller is the View wrapper that will give you all of your lifecycle management features. Think of it as a lighter-weight and more predictable Fragment alternative with an easier to manage lifecycle. Router | A Router implements navigation and backstack handling for Controllers. Router objects are attached to Activity/containing ViewGroup pairs. Routers do not directly render or push Views to the container ViewGroup, but instead defer this responsibility to the ControllerChangeHandler specified in a given transaction. ControllerChangeHandler | ControllerChangeHandlers are responsible for swapping the View for one Controller to the View of another. They can be useful for performing animations and transitions between Controllers. Several default ControllerChangeHandlers are included. RouterTransaction | Transactions are used to define data about adding Controllers. RouterTransactions are used to push a Controller to a Router with specified ControllerChangeHandlers, while ChildControllerTransactions are used to add child Controllers.
public class MainActivity extends Activity {private Router router; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); ViewGroup container = (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.controller_container); router = Conductor.attachRouter(this, container, savedInstanceState); if (!router.hasRootController()) { router.setRoot(RouterTransaction.with(new HomeController())); } } @Override public void onBackPressed() { if (!router.handleBack()) { super.onBackPressed(); } }
}
public class HomeController extends Controller {@Override protected View onCreateView(@NonNull LayoutInflater inflater, @NonNull ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedViewState) { View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.controller_home, container, false); ((TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tv_title)).setText("Hello World"); return view; }
}
Demo app - Shows how to use all basic and most advanced functions of Conductor.
The lifecycle of a Controller is significantly simpler to understand than that of a Fragment. A lifecycle diagram is shown below:
setRetainViewModecan be called on a
Controllerwith one of two values:
RELEASE_DETACH, which will release the
Controller's view as soon as it is detached from the screen (saves memory), or
RETAIN_DETACH, which will ensure that a
Controllerholds on to its view, even if it's not currently shown on the screen (good for views that are expensive to re-create).
ControllerChangeHandlercan be subclassed in order to perform different functions when changing between two
Controllers. Two convenience
ControllerChangeHandlersubclasses are included to cover most basic needs:
AnimatorChangeHandler, which will use an
Animatorobject to transition between two views, and
TransitionChangeHandler, which will use Lollipop's
Transitionframework for transitioning between views.
getChildRoutercan be called on a
Controllerin order to get a nested
Routerinto which child
Controllers can be pushed. This enables creating advanced layouts, such as Master/Detail.
If the AutoDispose dependency has been added, there is a
ControllerScopeProvideravailable that can be used along with the standard AutoDispose library.
The community has provided several helpful modules to make developing apps with Conductor even easier. Here's a collection of helpful libraries:
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