Possibility to add custom element.

[ghost]

I was checking out the library it's good but i have a special inquiry that i don't know there is a way to have it or not. I am trying to have a lottie animation for loading but as far as i understood the way to have a custom view is to use canvas which doesn't seems to be able to draw a custom element. Do you have any suggestion on this?

[tylersuehr7]

Thanks for reaching out to me with your input, and that's a great inquiry too! I've thought of different ways to support different animations with this library, but haven't tried or tested any of them though. Here's an idea, I haven't tested this at all but I think it could work: I've seen some pretty cool and pretty complex animations done using Drawables that implement the Animatable interface before. You may be able to write your animation in a subclass of Drawable, which has the ability to draw to a Canvas using Canvas APIs, that implements Animatable, and then use the Drawable#draw(Canvas) method to draw/start your animation. Hopefully that's a good suggestion and pretty helpful lol! Let me know what your thoughts and opinions are!!

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[ghost]

Thanks for the response. I have seen the mentioned API as you said and would work good for some situations. But if there was a way to render a ViewGroup as a state on future versions it would give a lot of freedom not only on animation but on the other customization parts too. Lottie offers many great features on animationing plus it has a great library of premade animations that i didn't find something compared to it in android. (www.lottiefiles.com)

[tylersuehr7]

I'll definitely be able to check that out within the next day or two. I would like the library to be able to support complex animations so that they're easy to make/implement! Could you elaborate more on what you mean to render a view as a state? I think I know what you mean, but I just want to make sure I'm on the right page and completely understand. On Jan 10, 2018 2:39 PM, "Mojtaba Solooki" <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for the response. I have seen the mentioned API as you said and would work good for some situations. But if there was a way to render a view as a state on future versions it would give a lot of freedom not only on animation but on the other customization parts too. Lottie offers many great features on animationing plus it has a great library of premade animations that i didn't find something compared to it in android. ( www.lottiefiles.com) — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AKudCe69v8Vi3dMiv8JIuhJv2s4S5yrdks5tJRH4gaJpZM4RZwdW> .

[ghost]

Canvas is the api to draw on a view but i'm thinking instead of we could have different views for each state then we would have the freedom to create any kind of layout we want to. I don't think it would be that hard. only another constructor for AbstractStateDisplay that draws the returned View for the state would be good. I appreciate your work and hope you the best.