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MaterialChipsInput
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Implementation of Material Design Chips component for Android

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MaterialChipsInput

Implementation of Material Design Chips component for Android. The library provides two views : ChipsInput and ChipView.

Release

Demo

Demo

Download sample-v1.0.8.apk

Setup

To use this library your minSdkVersion must be >= 15.

In your project level build.gradle :

allprojects {     repositories {         ...         maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }     } }

In your app level build.gradle :

dependencies {     compile 'com.github.pchmn:MaterialChipsInput:1.0.8' }


ChipsInput

This view implements the Material Design Contact chips component.

It is composed of a collection of chips (ChipView) and an input (EditText). Touching a chip open a full detailed view (if non disable). The GIF above describes the behavior of the ChipsInput view.

But everything is configurable (optional avatar icon, optional full detailed view, ...) so you can use the ChipsInput view for non contact chips.

Basic Usage

XML

Use the ChipsInput view in your layout with default options :
<com.pchmn.materialchips.ChipsInput
        android:id="@+id/chips_input"
        android:layoutwidth="matchparent"
        android:layoutheight="wrapcontent"
        app:hint="Enter a name" />
You can also customize it (see all attributes) :
<com.pchmn.materialchips.ChipsInput
        android:id="@+id/chips_input"
        android:layoutwidth="matchparent"
        android:layoutheight="wrapcontent"
        app:hint="Enter a name"
        app:hintColor="@color/customColor"
        app:textColor="@color/customColor"
        app:maxRows="3"
        app:chip_labelColor="@color/customColor"
        app:chip_hasAvatarIcon="true"
        app:chip_backgroundColor="@color/customColor"
        app:chip_deletable="false"
        app:chip_deleteIc
        app:chipdetailedtextColor="@color/customColor"
        app:chipdetailedbackgroundColor="@color/customColor"
        app:chipdetaileddeleteIc
        app:filterablelistbackgroundColor="@color/customColor"
        app:filterablelisttextColor="@color/customColor" />

Suggestions

You can pass a List<? extends ChipInterface> object, which represents your suggestions, to the ChipsInput view, so it will work as a MultiAutoCompleteTextView :
1. Create a class that implements ChipInterface (or use directly the Chip class included in the library) :
public class ContactChip implements ChipInterface {
    ...
}
2. Then in your activity, or anything else, build your suggestion list of ContactChip (or Chip) and pass it to the ChipsInput view :
// get ChipsInput view
ChipsInput chipsInput = (ChipsInput) findViewById(R.id.chips_input);

// build the ContactChip list List<ContactChip> contactList = new ArrayList<>(); contactList.add(new ContactChip()); ...

// pass the ContactChip list chipsInput.setFilterableList(contactList);

Get the selected list

When you want you can get the current list of chips selected by the user :
// get the list
List<ContactChip> contactsSelected = (List<ContactChip>) chipsInput.getSelectedChipList();

That's it, there is nothing more to do.

Advanced Usage

ChipsListener

The ChipsInput view provides a listener to interact with the input :
chipsInput.addChipsListener(new ChipsInput.ChipsListener() {             @Override             public void onChipAdded(ChipInterface chip, int newSize) {                 // chip added                 // newSize is the size of the updated selected chip list             }

@Override public void onChipRemoved(ChipInterface chip, int newSize) { // chip removed // newSize is the size of the updated selected chip list }

@Override public void onTextChanged(CharSequence text) { // text changed } });

Add and remove chips manually

You don't have to pass a List<? extends ChipInterface> to the ChipsInput view and you can do the trick manually. Thanks to the ChipsListener you can be notified when the user is typing and do your own work.
ChipsInput chipsInput = (ChipsInput) findViewById(R.id.chips_input);
Add a chip
There are multiple implementations :
chipsInput.addChip(ChipInterface chip);
// or
chipsInput.addChip(Object id, Drawable icon, String label, String info);
// or
chipsInput.addChip(Drawable icon, String label, String info);
// or
chipsInput.addChip(Object id, Uri iconUri, String label, String info);
// or
chipsInput.addChip(Uri iconUri, String label, String info);
// or
chipsInput.addChip(String label, String info);
Remove a chip
There are multiple implementations :
chipsInput.removeChip(ChipInterface chip);
// or
chipsInput.removeChipById(Object id);
// or
chipsInput.removeChipByLabel(String label);
// or
chipsInput.removeChipByInfo(String info);

After you added or removed a chip the ChipsListener will be triggered.

Get the selected list
When you want you can get the current list of chips selected by the user :
// get the list
List<ChipInterface> contactsSelected = chipsInput.getSelectedChipList();

ChipsInput attributes

Attribute | Type | Description | Default --- | --- | --- | --- app:hint | string | Hint of the input when there is no chip | null app:hintColor | color | Hint color | android default app:textColor | color | Text color when user types | android default app:maxRows | int | Max rows of chips | 2 app:chip_labelColor | color | Label color of the chips | android default app:chip_hasAvatarIcon | boolean | Whether the chips have avatar icon or not | true app:chip_deletable | boolean | Whether the chips are deletable (delete icon) or not | false app:chip_deleteIconColor | color | Delete icon color of the chips | white/black app:chip_backgroundColor | color | Background color of the chips | grey app:showChipDetailed | boolean | Whether to show full detailed view or not when touching a chip | true app:chipdetailedtextColor | color | Full detailed view text color | white/balck app:chipdetailedbackgroundColor | color | Background color of the full detailed view | colorAccent app:chipdetaileddeleteIconColor | color | Delete icon color of the full detailed view | white/black app:filterablelistbackgroundColor | color | Background color of the filterable list of suggestions | white app:filterablelisttextColor | color | Text color of the filterable list of suggestions | black



ChipView

This view implements the chip component according to the Material Design guidelines with configurable options (background color, text color, ...).

Chips examples

Usage

<com.pchmn.materialchips.ChipView
            android:layoutwidth="wrapcontent"
            android:layoutheight="wrapcontent"
            app:label="Chip 1" />
            
<com.pchmn.materialchips.ChipView
                android:layoutwidth="wrapcontent"
                android:layoutheight="wrapcontent"
                app:label="Chip 4"
                app:hasAvatarIcon="true" />

<com.pchmn.materialchips.ChipView android:layoutwidth="wrapcontent" android:layoutheight="wrapcontent" app:label="Chip 6" app:labelColor="@android:color/white" app:avatarIcon="@drawable/avatar" app:backgroundColor="@android:color/holobluelight" app:deletable="true" app:deleteIc />

ChipView attributes

Attribute | Type | Description | Default --- | --- | --- | --- app:label | string | Label of the chip | null app:labelColor | color | Label color of the chip | android default app:hasAvatarIcon | boolean | Whether the chip has avatar icon or not | false app:avatarIcon | drawable | Avatar icon resource | null app:deletable | boolean | Whether the chip is deletable (delete icon) or not | false app:deleteIconColor | color | Delete icon color of the chip | grey app:backgroundColor | color | Background color of the chip | grey

Listeners

ChipView chip = (ChipView) findViewById(R.id.chip_view);

On chip click listener :

chip.setOnChipClicked(new View.OnClickListener() {     @Override     public void onClick(View view) {         // handle click         } });

On delete button click listener :

chip.setOnDeleteClicked(new View.OnClickListener() {     @Override     public void onClick(View view) {         // handle click          } });


Sample

A sample app with some use cases of the library is available on this link

You can also download the sample APK here

Credits

License

Copyright 2017 pchmn

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. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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