This is a little library for enlarging the size of numbers, compared to the rest of the text in your TextView.
It is good for demonstraiting the usage of Spannable and how they can be combined to create very different text effects. Spannable can be very helpful in Android. I use a similar idea in my TextView-LinkBuilder project.
I would like to a blog post, in the future, about this type of thing.
This libary enlarges the size of numbers within a CharSequence/String. Basically, you pass a string of text, through the Factory, and it will output a SpannableString that doubles the text size of numbers, as well as bolds them.
This can create nice effects, especially when you have a number, along with a representation, such as 12 MB or 1.57 dB.
The goal of this library is just to make that effect very simple to work with and to show how Spannable can be used within your own project, in other ways.
There are two ways to use this library:
This is the preferred way. Simply add:
dependencies {
compile 'com.klinkerapps:enlarged_numbers:1.0.0'
}to your project dependencies and run gradle build or gradle assemble.
Download the source code and import it as a library project in Eclipse. The project is available in the folder library. For more information on how to do this, read here.
Functionality can be found in the example's MainActivity. It is extremely simple to use:
EnlargedNumbersString str = EnlargedNumbersFactory.build(getString(R.string.test_string), 1.5, false);
textView.setText(str);The build method accepts a required CharSequence, then an optional number scale multiplier and flag for whether or not the number should be bolded.
Please fork this repository and contribute back using pull requests. Features can be requested using issues. All code, comments, and critiques are greatly appreciated.
The full changelog for the library can be found here.
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