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Another Android Adapter Abstraction Here

A lightweight and easy to use abstraction for Android RecyclerViews.

@Adapter
class EmojiListItemAdapter @Inject constructor() : AnotherAdapter<EmojiListItemViewModel>() {

    override val viewType: ViewType = AdapterViewType.from(EmojiListItemAdapter::class.java)

    override fun onHandlesItem(item: Any): Boolean = item is EmojiListItemViewModel

    override fun onCreateView(parent: ViewGroup, inflater: LayoutInflater, viewType: ViewType): View =
        inflater.inflate(R.layout.adapter_emoji_list_item, parent, false)

    override fun View.onBindItem(item: EmojiListItemViewModel, position: Int) {
        adapterEmojiWidget?.emojiViewModel = item.viewModel
    }
}

Building

The library is provided through Bintray. Refer to the releases for the latest version.

Repository

repositories {
    maven {
        url = uri("https://dl.bintray.com/chrynan/chrynan")
    }
}

Dependencies

Android Library:

implementation 'com.chrynan.aaaah:aaaah-libraryx:VERSION'

Core Common (Kotlin Multi-platform Classes):

implementation 'com.chrynan.aaaah:aaaah-core:VERSION'

Annotations (Optional):

implementation 'com.chrynan.aaaah:aaaah-annotation:VERSION'

Annotation Processor (Optional):

kapt 'com.chrynan.aaaah:aaaah-compiler:VERSION'

DSL (Optional):

implementation 'com.chrynan.aaaah:aaaah-dsl:VERSION'

Using the Library

• Create an AnotherAdapter implementation:

class MyAdapter : AnotherAdapter<MyItem>() {

    override val viewType = AdapterViewType.from(this::class.java)

    override fun onHandlesItem(item: Any) = item is MyItem

    override fun onCreateView(parent: ViewGroup, inflater: LayoutInflater, viewType: ViewType): View =
        inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_adapter_layout_file, parent, false)

    override fun View.onBindItem(item: MyItem, position: Int) {
        // Bind the Item to the View
    }
}

• Create the ManagerRecyclerViewAdapter which handles the coordination between multiple AnotherAdapters:

val managerAdapter = anotherAdapterManager(MyAdapter()) // vararg parameters

• Add the ManagerRecyclerViewAdapter to the RecyclerView:

recyclerView?.apply {
    adapter = managerAdapter
    layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(context) // Or whatever LayoutManager needed
}

Quick Adapter Creation

There is a convenience function which is a shortened syntax to create an Adapter. This could be useful for quick basic adapters.

val myAdapter =
    anotherAdapter<ItemType>(viewType = myViewType, viewResId = R.layout.my_adapter_layout) { item, position ->
        // this refers to the containing Android View
        this.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.myTextView)?.text = item.title
    }

Then to assign the Adapter to a RecyclerView, wrap it in a ManagerRecyclerViewAdapter:

recyclerView?.apply {
    adapter = anotherManagerAdapter(myAdapter)
    layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(context) // Or whatever LayoutManager needed
}

If only one Adapter is needed, there's no need to explicitly wrap the Adapter, just call the RecyclerView.adapter() extension function:

recyclerView?.apply {
    adapter(myAdapter)
    layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(context) // Or whatever LayoutManager needed
}

Annotation Processor

By default, the AdapterViewType.from() function returns the Hash Code of the Class. For most use cases this should be sufficient. However, if guaranteed unique View Types are needed for each Adapter, the Annotation Processor could be used.

• Annotate the Adapter with the Adapter annotation (available in the Annotations library):

@Adapter
class MyAdapter : AnotherAdapter<MyItem>() {

    override val viewType = AdapterViewType.from(this::class.java)

    override fun onHandlesItem(item: Any) = item is MyItem

    override fun onCreateView(parent: ViewGroup, inflater: LayoutInflater, viewType: ViewType): View =
        inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_adapter_layout_file, parent, false)

    override fun View.onBindItem(item: MyItem, position: Int) {
        // Bind the Item to the View
    }
}

• Build the project (make sure to have both the compiler and annotations libraries in the dependencies)

A class, AdapterViewTypes, will be generated with View Type constants for each class annotated with the Adapter annotation. Also, a more specific AdapterViewType.from() extension function will be generated. Either approach could be used to access the View Type for each adapter:

AdapterViewTypes.MY_ADAPTER
// or
AdapterViewType.from(MyAdapter::class.java)

Naming the generated constants

The generated constant names can be overridden by providing a value to the name parameter in the Adapter annotation:

@Adapter(name = "MyConstantName")
// Results in:
AdapterViewTypes.MyConstantName

Processing Item Changes

The library comes with a DiffUtilCalculator class which is a basic implementation of RecyclerView's DiffUtil.Callback for a UniqueAdapterItem. This class can be used for most cases but if additional functionality is needed, the class is extensible. The DiffUtilCalculator.calculateDiff() function takes in a parameter of list items and calculates the diff and returns an AndroidDiffResult which is a wrapper around the RecyclerView's DiffUtil.DiffResult.

val diffCalculator = DiffUtilCalculator<UniqueAdapterItem>()

val result = diffCalculator.calculateDiff(sortedItems = myNewListItems)

// myListUpdater is an implementation of the ItemListUpdater interface
myListUpdater.items = result.items
result.diffUtilResult.dispatchItemsTo(myListUpdater)

The library contains a DiffProcessor interface in the Kotlin common core module and an AndroidDiffProcessor implementation which encapsulates the processing logic.

val processor = AndroidDiffProcessor(DiffUtilCalculator())

val result = processor.processDiff(myNewListItems)

The library also contains a DiffDispatcher interface in the Kotlin common core module and an AndroidDiffDispatcher implementation which encapsulates the dispatching logic.

val dispatcher = AndroidDiffDispatcher(myItemListUpdater)

dispatcher.dispatchDiff(result)

Both the DiffProcessor.processDiff and the DiffDispatcher.dispatchDiff functions are suspending functions. This is because these tasks should be performed off the UI Thread.

Using the provided AdapterItemHandler interface, processing items is much easier on a Kotlin Coroutine Flow of items:

val adapterItemHandler = BaseAdapterItemHandler(myDiffProcessor, myDiffDispatcher)

flowOf(myItems)
    .calculateAndDispatcherDiff(adapterItemHandler)
    .launchIn(this)

Adapter Factories

Sometimes dynamic Adapter creation is necessary, such as when using nested adapters. For this scenario, there is the AdapterFactory interface along with the BaseAdapterFactory abstract class implementation. Creating a custom AdapterFactory implementation is fairly straightforward:

class MyItemAdapterFactory @Inject constructor(
    myItemAdapter: MyItemAdapter,
    context: Context
) : BaseAdapterFactory<ListItemViewModel>() {

    override val adapters: Set<AnotherAdapter<*>> = setOf(myItemAdapter)

    override val positionManager: AdapterPositionManager = VerticalPositionManager(context)
}

Then the AdapterFactory has to be bound to the RecyclerView, and finally it can be used instead of the AdapterItemHandler to calculate and dispatch the diffs:

recyclerView?.bindAdapterFactory(myAdapterFactory)

flowOf(myItems)
    .calculateAndDispatcherDiff(myAdapterFactory)
    .launchIn(this)