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Various widgets

Android Widgets

Various Android widgets

This is a library I hope to add to over time, a place to keep custom views that turn out useful.

TouchMagView

TouchMagView is a magnifier view for Android apps. Typical usage is to place it at the top of the z-order in a RelativeLayout. By default, it does nothing, until you attach one or more other views to it, and call the startMagnifying() method. At that point a loupe of a size and magnification you specify appears where you're touching, and magnifies that area.

Here's a picture of it in action:

![Screenshot] (resources/screenshot.png?raw=true "Magnifier")

To use it, do something like this in a layout:

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    >
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/some_img"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:src="@drawable/some_image"
        />
        
    <com.fognl.android.widget.TouchMagView
        android:id="@+id/mag"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        />
</RelativeLayout>

Then, in onCreate() of the Activity, do something like this:

    mMagView = (TouchMagView)findViewById(R.id.magnifier);
    mMagView
        // Add a view to magnify
        .addView(findViewById(R.id.img))
        // Set the size of the loupe (px)
        .setLoupeSize(200)
        // Set the magnification
        .setZoom(2f)
        // Display it 200px above the touch point (helps if you want to see it!)
        .setXYOffsets(0, -200)
        // Pass touch events to the views under the magnifier
        .setListener(new TouchMagView.Listener() {
            @Override
            public void onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
                // Pass the event through to the relevant views.
                findViewById(R.id.img).dispatchTouchEvent(event);
            }
        });

You can specify when to start and stop magnifying. For example:

public void onStartMagClick(View v) {
    mMagView.startMagnifying();
}

public void onStopMagClick(View v) {
    mMagView.stopMagnifying();
}

There are several options for controlling loupe size, magnification, various colors (rim, text, crosshair), whether or not to show a crosshair or text, etc.

More to come.

Project Structure

The library/ directory contains the Android library you'll (perhaps) use in your project. The demo/ directory contains an app that shows it in action.

Have fun.