android-about-library

The AboutLibraries library allows you to easily generate beautiful about view fully customizable with less effort and code.

• Overview
• Include in your project
• Simple usage
• Screenshots from sample app

Overview

Here’s a quick overview of functions it include:

• About this app section
  • Icon
  • Title
  • Default buttons ( like Google Play, GitHub, Apple Store, Website, etc… )
  • Custom buttons ( user difined buttons like Error Reporter, Licence, etc… )
• Author section
  • Profile image using Gravatar
  • Name
  • FloatingActionButton for social accounts and contacts ( email, GitHub, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Website)
• Other projects section
  • Icon
  • Name
  • Description
  • Store and project source button
• Multiple screen support

All the information can be displayed with multilanguage support!

Include in your project

Available on JitPack

repositories {
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    }

add the following dependency to your build.gradle

implementation "com.github.fattazzo:android-about-library:0.5.2"

//required support lib modules
implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${versions.supportLib}"
implementation "com.android.support:gridlayout-v7:${versions.supportLib}"
implementation "com.android.support:design:${versions.supportLib}"
implementation "com.android.support:cardview-v7:${versions.supportLib}"

Verify the latest release at https://github.com/fattazzo/android-about-library/releases/latest

Simple usage

val aboutViewBuilder = AboutViewBuilder()
             .withInfoUrl(INFO_URL)
             .withAppId(context.applicationContext.packageName)
             .withLang("it")
             .withFlatStyleButtons(true) // default false
             .withAppBox(true) // default true
             .withAuthorBox(true) // default true
             .withOtherProjectsBox(true) // default true

val intent = Intent(this, com.gmail.fattazzo.aboutlibrary.activity.AboutActivity::class.java)
                .apply { putExtra(AboutActivity.EXTRA_BUILDER, aboutViewBuilder) }
startActivity(intent)

Explanation

• withInfoUrl: Url of info configuration. The configuration can be provided as url, jsonString or as a simple object in the app. See the wiki to learn more.
• withAppId: App id used for display informations in the “About this app section”
• withLang: Language of about view
• withAppBox: Toggle “About this app section”
• withAuthorBox: Toggle “Author section”
• withOtherProjectsBox: Toggle “Other projects section”

For advanced configuration please refer to the wiki.

Screenshots from sample app

Standard screen

Landscape standard screen

Landscape tablet screen

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Gianluca Fattarsi

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