Added option to stop icon pulsing. Added null check for activity in c…

README.md

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ A work in progress...
 
 ```groovy
 dependecies {
-    compile 'com.tapadoo.android:alerter:1.0.0'
+    compile 'com.tapadoo.android:alerter:1.0.1'
 }
 ```
 

alerter/build.gradle

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ apply plugin: "maven-publish"
 apply from: rootProject.file('quality.gradle')
 
 def final String PACKAGE_NAME = "com.tapadoo.android"
-def final String VERSION      = "1.0.0"
+def final String VERSION      = "1.0.1"
 def final String DESCRIPTION  = "An Android Alerting Library"
 def final String GITHUB_URL   = "https://github.com/Tapadoo/Alerter"
 

alerter/src/main/java/com/tapadoo/alerter/Alert.java

@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
  *
  * @author Kevin Murphy, Tapadoo, Dublin, Ireland, Europe, Earth.
  * @since 26/01/2016
- *
  **/
 public class Alert extends FrameLayout implements View.OnClickListener, Animation.AnimationListener {
 
@@ -53,6 +52,8 @@ public class Alert extends FrameLayout implements View.OnClickListener, Animatio
 
     private long duration = DISPLAY_TIME_IN_SECONDS;
 
+    private boolean enableIconPulse = true;
+
     /**
      * Flag to ensure we only set the margins once
      */
@@ -187,10 +188,12 @@ public void onAnimationStart(final Animation animation) {
     @Override
     public void onAnimationEnd(final Animation animation) {
         //Start the Icon Animation once the Alert is settled
-        try {
-            ivIcon.startAnimation(AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getContext(), R.anim.alerter_pulse));
-        } catch (Exception ex) {
-            Log.e(getClass().getSimpleName(), Log.getStackTraceString(ex));
+        if (enableIconPulse) {
+            try {
+                ivIcon.startAnimation(AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getContext(), R.anim.alerter_pulse));
+            } catch (Exception ex) {
+                Log.e(getClass().getSimpleName(), Log.getStackTraceString(ex));
+            }
         }
 
         //Start the Handler to clean up the Alert
@@ -359,6 +362,15 @@ public void setDuration(final long duration) {
         this.duration = duration;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Set if the Icon should pulse or not
+     *
+     * @param shouldPulse True if the icon should be animated
+     */
+    public void pulseIcon(final boolean shouldPulse) {
+        this.enableIconPulse = shouldPulse;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Get the screen height in pixels
      *

alerter/src/main/java/com/tapadoo/alerter/Alerter.java

@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ private Alerter() {
      * @return This Alerter
      */
     public static Alerter create(@NonNull final Activity activity) {
+        if (activity == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Activity cannot be null!");
+        }
+
         final Alerter alerter = new Alerter();
 
         //Clear Current Alert, if one is Active
@@ -215,6 +219,19 @@ public Alerter setDuration(@NonNull final long milliseconds) {
         return this;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Enable or Disable Icon Pulse Animations
+     *
+     * @param pulse True if the icon should pulse
+     * @return This Alerter
+     */
+    public Alerter enableIconPulse(final boolean pulse) {
+        if (getAlert() != null) {
+            getAlert().pulseIcon(pulse);
+        }
+        return this;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Gets the Alert associated with the Alerter
      *