ShimmerRecyclerViewX

A custom recycler view with shimmer views to indicate that views are loading for AndroidX. This will only work if you are using AndroidX RecyclerView as a dependency.

Updates

• Only use-able in View based AndroidX applications
• Updated compatibility, minimum support is now Nougat or minSdk 24
• Now fully written in Kotlin
• Updated publishing mechanism and gradle capability
• Updated RecyclerView version under the hood (uses stable version v1.3.2)

Getting Started

Make sure to have Android Studio

Gradle

In your root build.gradle, add at the end of the repositories:

allprojects {
  repositories {
    ...
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
  }
}

If you are using newer Android Studio Project structure that is using build.gradle.kts, you can instead declare inside your settings.gradle.kts:

dependencyResolutionManagement {
  repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS)
    repositories {
      google()
      mavenCentral()
      maven (url = "https://jitpack.io")
    }
}

Add the dependency

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.mikekpl:shimmer-recyclerview-x:2.0.0'
}

Usage

• showShimmerAdapter() - set up a demo adapter a predefined number of child demo views.
• hideShimmerAdapter() - restores your adapter to show the actual child elements.

Demo Screen

There are two kinds of shimmer animation which you can see here:

1. This type of shimmer effect uses the whole ViewHolder item to animate on.

List Demo	Grid Demo

2. Here the shimmer effect only applied on for those views which background color is nontransparent.

List Demo	Grid Demo

Shimmer effect types

1. As you can see the first demo examples show that the whole ViewHolder item is animated. To achieve the desired effect, the children of the ShimmerLayout should have a nontransparent background.

2. You can achieve the second kind of shimmer effect by adding only one ViewGroup child to the ShimmerLayout with a transparent background. This ViewGroup will have the other views with nontransparent backgrounds on which the effect will be seen.

   You may wonder how can you add background to the root view of the ViewHolder, if you do not have direct access to the ShimmerLayout and the only child has a nontransparent background. The solution for this is to use the shimmer_demo_view_holder_item_background attribute.

Attributes and Methods

Following are the attributes and methods to initialise the demo views.

XML Attributes	Java Methods	Explanation
app:shimmer_demo_child_count	setDemoChildCount(int)	Integer value that sets the number of demo views should be present in shimmer adapter.
app:shimmer_demo_layout	setDemoLayoutReference(int)	Layout reference to your demo view. Define your my_demo_view.xml and refer the layout reference here.
app:shimmer_demo_layout_manager_type	setDemoLayoutManager(LayoutManagerType)	Layout manager of demo view. Can be one among linear_vertical or linear_horizontal or grid.
app:shimmer_demo_shimmer_color	-	Color reference or value. It can be used to change the color of the shimmer line.
app:shimmer_demo_angle	-	Integer value between 0 and 30 which can modify the angle of the shimmer line. The default value is zero.
app:shimmer_demo_mask_width	setDemoShimmerMaskWidth(float)	Float value between 0 and 1 which can modify the width of the shimmer line. The default value is 0.5.
app:shimmer_demo_view_holder_item_background	-	Color or an xml drawable for the ViewHolder background if you want to achieve the second type of shimmer effect.
app:shimmer_demo_reverse_animation	-	Defines whether the animation should be reversed. If it is true, then the animation starts from the right side of the View. Default value is false.

XML

<com.mikelau.views.shimmer.ShimmerRecyclerViewX
        xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        android:id="@+id/shimmer_recycler_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:shimmer_demo_child_count="10"
        app:shimmer_demo_grid_child_count="2"
        app:shimmer_demo_layout="@layout/layout_demo_grid"
        app:shimmer_demo_layout_manager_type="grid"
        app:shimmer_demo_angle="20"
        />

where @layout/layout_demo_grid refers to your sample layout that should be shown during loading spinner.

Credits

• https://github.com/mikekpl - ShimmerRecyclerView support for AndroidX
• https://github.com/sharish - ShimmerRecyclerView for Android
• https://github.com/veghtomi - Shimmer Layout / Original Reference
• http://supercharge.io/ - Shimmer Layout / Original Reference

References

• https://github.com/sharish/ShimmerRecyclerView
• https://github.com/team-supercharge/ShimmerLayout/

License

Copyright 2018 Mike Lau

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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