BaselHorany / RecentActivitiesMenu

RecentActivitiesMenu

A menu that display recent visited activity on their paused stated, which also can be clicked to naviagte to it directly. Similar to recent apps menu but this is for in-app activities This Lib not only nice addtition to make more unique design that may like users\client, but also used to navigate easier and faster between activities, for instance usually in android a main activity -> conversations list activity -> single chat activity, once user go back to main he can not go directly to single chat without revisiting list activity. but with this lib it is possible without losing extras

Setup

1- Add jitpack.io repositories to you project build.gradle

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

2- Add it as a dependency to your app build.gradle

dependencies {
  compile 'com.github.BaselHorany:RecentActivitiesMenu:1.0.0'
}

Usage

This Lib extends android support library DrawerLayout so you are free to deal with the menu as usual

<com.basel.RecentActivitiesMenu.ActivitiesMenuDrawer xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:openDrawer="left">

    <!--include your main layout -->
    <include
        layout="@layout/activity_main"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

    <com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView
        android:background="@drawable/nav_bg"
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        app:itemIconTint="@color/colorSecondary"
        app:itemTextColor="@color/colorPrimary"
        app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
        app:menu="@menu/navigation_menu"/>
    <!--app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header"-->

</com.basel.RecentActivitiesMenu.ActivitiesMenuDrawer>

/*Extend application class from this Lib. clone it and edite for multidexing*/
    public class AppController extends AMApplication {
       
    }

/*options*/
    DrawerLayout drawerLayout = findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
    drawerLayout.setRecentBelowHeader(false);//show recent menu below drawer header if any.

To-do

1-Relay on stronger identifier of activities to avoid duplication. Currently it uses hashCode, working on a way to idintify activity by its component name + intent extras, or the easiest way in worst cases is to manually call the lib to identify each activity.

This lib uses AndroidX

Author

Basel Horany http://baselhorany.com