NotificationBanner

An easy to use library to show a notification banner. This is useful for cases in apps where the user is already in your app so using a system notifications could be confusing. Instead use this library to show a notification banner which is themed to your UI and can have custom behavior based on what part of the app they are in.

Features

• Simple API to show a notification banner over other app content
• Convenient gestures like clicking and swiping away
• Advanced features to expand on Notification Banner functionality

How Do I Use It?

Setup

Gradle

On your module's build.gradle file add this statement to the dependencies section:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.nick.mowen.notificationbanner:notificationbanner:1.0.2'
}

Also make sure that the repositories section includes both jcenter and maven section with the "google()" endpoint.

repositories {
    jcenter()
    google()
}

Notification Banner

Add to your layout

NOTE: It does not matter which type of parent the banner has, but for it to work right the banner must hover over the app content

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    ...

    <com.nick.mowen.notificationbanner.view.NotificationBanner
        android:id="@+id/banner"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</Framelayout>

Create And Setup The View

val banner: NotificationBanner = findViewById(R.id.banner)
...
banner.notify(BannerInfo(bitmap, string, string) //Use this to show content immediately
...
banner.info = BannerInfo(bitmap, string, string) //Use this if you want to set data and notify later
banner.notify()

Customize The View

//Use the click listener to react to when the user clicks on the banner
banner.listener = object : BannerClickListener {
    override fun onClick(view: View, info: BannerInfo) {
                
    }
}

Advanced Usage

You can set the banner to not hide when being clicked to enable the ability to show custom animations

banner.hideAfterClick = false

If you need more information when the banner is clicked, you can create your own BannerInfo

class NewBannerInfo (threadId: String, bitmap: Bitmap, title: String, text: String) : BannerInfo(bitmap, title, text)

Then simply submit that new class on notify

banner.notify(NewBannerInfo(string, bitmap, string, string))

Then in the onClick cast the info to your class

banner.listener = object : BannerClickListener {
    override fun onClick(view: View, info: BannerInfo) {
        val newInfo = info as NewBannerInfo
        //Do stuff with newInfo.threadId
    }
}

Applications using NotificationBanner

Icon	Application
	Texpert

Please email me or send a pull request if you would like to be added here.

Developed By

Nick Mowen - nick@nicknackdevelopment.com

Contributions

Any contributions are welcome!

License

Copyright 2018 Nick Nack Developments

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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