Android Extra WebView Library

We have come up with yet another simple but filled with a new feature, the Java library for our android developers. The Extra WebView Library is developed to change add new features and themes inside the webView instead of it being just a regular view of the website.

The android library contains beautiful new themes and also is compatible with API Level 17. Libraries are an important part in android development as it reduces a lot of burden from developers. This webView library has been built to make webView implementation easy and flexible.

Before discussing the usage let us give a quick overview of the java library(WebView):

• Compatible with API Level 17

• RTL support

• Multi theme support

• Full-screen feature

• Easy sharing of URL

• Search in page support

• Contains Bookmark and Vote icon using EventBus Library

The demo for this is available, just follow the link below:

https://github.com/bkhezry/ExtraWebView/blob/master/assets/DemoExtraWebView-last.apk

Samples:

You can also go through the sample photos provided below as a reference on themes and buttons available in this easy webView Library. 

From the sample, you can get a view of 6 different themes available in this Extra webView library. Different themes are made available for use as per individual’s preference. The samples also provide a glimpse of the new features available such as Vote and Bookmark buttons and a way for users to take a full-screen experience.

Screenshots

### full screen mode

Setup

The Extra webView library is easy to be implemented in your application. Just follow these simple steps:

1. Provide the gradle dependency

For this, add it to your root build. gradle at the end of repositories:

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

Then, simply add this dependency: 

dependencies {
 implementation 'com.github.bkhezry:ExtraWebView:1.2.۵'
}

2. Add your code

The next step is to add ItemActivity to AndroidManifest.xml

 <activity
            android:name="com.github.bkhezry.extrawebview.ItemActivity"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait" />

DataModel dataModel = new DataModelBuilder()
                .withId(id)
                .withType("blog")
                .withBy(authorName)
                .withTime(timestamp)
                .withUrl(url)
                .withDescription(description)
                .withBookmark(true)
                .withViewed(true)
                .withRank(0)
                .withVoted(true)
                .withPageTitle(title)
                .build();
new ExtraWebViewCreator()
 .withContext(MainActivity.this)
 .withBookmarkIcon(true)
 .withVoteIcon(true)
 .withCustomFont("fonts/IRANSansMobile.ttf")
 .withThemeName(themeName)
 .withDataModel(dataModel)
 .show();

After following the steps, new activity starts with WebViw ui

DataModel attributes

Name	Type	Default	Description
id	Long	@NonNull	unique id of post. use in bookmark and vote icon event handler
type	String	blog	type of post. use in future development
by	String	@NonNull	author name of post
time	Long	@NonNull	create time of post as timestamp format
url	String	@NonNull	url of post
description	String	@NonNull	description of post
bookmark	boolean	false	bookmark status of post
viewed	boolean	false	viewed status of post. use in future development
rank	integer	0	rank of post by users. use in future development
voted	boolean	false	vote status of post
pageTitle	String	@NonNull	title of post

ExtraWebViewCreator attributes

Name	Type	Default	Description
context	Context	@NonNull	context of current activity
bookmarkIcon	boolean	false	show icon of bookmark when true
customFont	String	@Nullable	use calligraphy library to set custom font. path of font in assets folder
themeName	String	light	name of theme use in WebView ui
dataModel	DataModel	@NonNull	object of DataModel class

List of theme name: light, dark, sepia, green, solarized and solarized_dark ThemePreference.java

Additional Setup

The Bookmark and vote buttons can be used as an event handling medium. You can handle bookmark and vote icon click event. For that, just add these code shown below to onCreate method of activity:

EventBus.getDefault().register(this);

After that, for use subscribe method as listener as follows:

EventBus.getDefault().register(this);

Through this code, EventBus shall return an object of intentServiceResult, when icons are clicked.

@Subscribe(threadMode = ThreadMode.MAIN)
public void doThis(IntentServiceResult intentServiceResult) {
 if (intentServiceResult.isChecked()) {

 } else {

 }
}

when each icon has been clicked, EventBus return object of IntentServiceResult.

IntentServiceResult attributes

Name	Type	value
id	Long	current post id
typeEvent	String	BOOKMARK or VOTE
isChecked	boolean	status of icon. if true icon is checked

Download complete project source code from GitHub