AndroDialogs

Synopsys

AndroDialogs is a library providing easy to use standard dialogs and dialog-templates using DialogFragments. It's goal is to make use of dialogs as simple as possible. By using DialogFragments, it is ensured that the handling of the dialogs themselves is properly done by the Android System. This means that certain side-effects like leaked activities are less likely to happen than it was before the introduction of the DialogFragments.

Prebuilt Version

AndroDialogs is available via Maven Central. You can use it no matter if you use maven, gradle or ant/ivy. Simply add it as a dependency into you build-system's files.

Simply use these values:

• Group-ID: de.dimensionv
• Artifact-ID: androDialogs-nativelibs or androDialogs-supportlibs
• Classifier: nativelibsRelease or supportLibsRelease
• Version: 1.0.0-196 (You may want to check for the latest version in the repo itself...)
• Packaging: aar

For gradle, this would look like

compile 'de.dimensionv:androDialogs-nativelibs:1.0.0-196:nativelibsRelease@aar'

for the nativelibs flavor, and like

compile 'de.dimensionv:androDialogs-supportlibs:1.0.0-196:supportlibsRelease@aar'

for the supportlibs flavor.

For maven, this would look like

<dependency>
  <groupId>de.dimensionv</groupId>
  <artifactId>androDialogs-nativelibs</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0-196</version>
  <classifier>nativelibsRelease</classifier>
  <type>aar</type>
</dependency>

for the nativelibs flavor, and like

<dependency>
  <groupId>de.dimensionv</groupId>
  <artifactId>androDialogs-supportlibs</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0-196</version>
  <classifier>supportlibsRelease</classifier>
  <type>aar</type>
</dependency>

for the supportlibs flavor.

For other dependency management systems and/or build-systems, please refer to their respective documentations.

Wait, DialogFragments? That means API-Level 11 and above!?

Yes and no. This library actually comes in two flavors, and you need to decide on which flavor to use.

• Native Android Fragments: this flavor only works on Android API level 11 and above. It uses the standard native Android DialogFragments
• Support Android Fragments: this flavor works on all Android API levels, if you add the support-v4 libraries to your project.

The Dialogs provided by AndroDialogs

The Standard Dialogs

The AndroDialogs library provides a number of ready-to-use standard dialogs:

• NotificationDialogFragment: A DialogFragment to display a simple message or notificiation
• HintDialogFragment: A DialogFragment to display a hint, with the option to not display it again.
• ConfirmationDeletionDialogFragment A DialogFragment for confirmation questions, not just for deletion, though that's the default case.
• DatePickerDialogFragment: A DialogFragment for selecting a date.
• TimePickerDialogFragment: A DialogFragment for selecting a time of day.

The Dialog Templates

In addition to the ready-to-use standard dialogs, AndroDialogs also provides two distinct templates that can be filled with any arbitrary layout to either display information (like a progress dialog), or to actualy have the user enter some data, which is then processed by the app.

• DisplayDialogFragment: A Dialog without controls (i.e. no buttons), which is intended to display messages and/or progress bars / information and which is completely controlled by the app (hence no buttons)
• InputDialogFragment: A DialogFragment to have the user enter arbitrary data. The DialogFragment requires a customized layout and lets the caller control the dialog-elements as well as which button was pressed via callbacks.