Android BadgedImageView

Easily add badges to an ImageView to describe its content.

Recently, in Talon for Twitter, one of my challenges was that you couldn't tell if media was a GIF, video, YouTube, etc. All the images just had the generic play button on them. This library, based off of Plaid, was my way to fix that.

Google+ uses a very similar style in their own app.

Features

Place a badge over the top of the ImageView to describe its content.

Use any text you like
Change the badge color
Change the placement of the badge using Gravity
Change the padding on the badge

Installation

There are two ways to use this library:

As a Gradle dependency

This is the preferred way. Simply add:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.klinkerapps:badged_imageview:1.0.5'
}

to your project dependencies and run ./gradlew build or ./gradlew assemble.

As a library project

Download the source code and import it as a library project in Eclipse. The project is available in the folder library. For more information on how to do this, read here.

Example Usage

Functionality can be found in the example's MainActivity. Badges on BadgedImageView can be added (or changed) from code:

badgedIv.setBadge("YouTube", Color.RED);
badgedIv.setBadge("GIF"); // default badge color is white

or they can be defined in XML layout:

<com.klinker.android.badged_imageview.BadgedImageView
    android:id="@+id/badged_iv"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="200dp"
    android:src="@drawable/gif"
    android:layout_margin="12dp"
    android:scaleType="centerCrop"
    app:badgeGravity="start|bottom"
    app:badgePadding="12dp"
    app:badgeColor="@android:color/white"
    app:badgeText="GIF" />

Contributing

Please fork this repository and contribute back using pull requests. Features can be requested using issues. All code, comments, and critiques are greatly appreciated.

Changelog

The full changelog for the library can be found here.

License

Copyright 2016 Luke Klinker

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
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