QuickReturn

Android ListView that implements the QuickReturn UI pattern. Written from scratch with focus on performance.

Demo

Usage

In your build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    // ...
    compile 'com.felipecsl.quickreturn:library:1.5.1'
}

In your activity class:

private ListView listView;
private ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;
private QuickReturnAttacher quickReturnAttacher;
private TextView quickReturnTarget;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    // your listView :)
    listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView);

    // the quick return target view to be hidden/displayed
    quickReturnTarget = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.quickReturnTarget);

    // your inner adapter
    adapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1);

    // Wrap your adapter with QuickReturnAdapter
    listView.setAdapter(new QuickReturnAdapter(adapter));

    // Attach a QuickReturnAttacher, which takes care of all of the hide/show functionality.
    quickReturnAttacher = QuickReturnAttacher.forView(listView);

    // Add a quick return targetView to the attacher.
    // You can pass a position argument (POSITION_TOP or POSITION_BOTTOM).
    // You can also optionally pass the size of the target view, which will be used to 
    // offset the list height, preventing it from hiding content behind the target view.
    quickReturnAttacher.addTargetView(quickReturnTarget, QuickReturnTargetView.POSITION_TOP, 50);

    // If you need to add an OnScrollListener to the listView, this is the correct
    // way to do so.
    // You have to add it on the QuickReturnAttacher instead
    // of adding on the listView directly.
    quickReturnAttacher.addOnScrollListener(this);
}

Check the sample app for an example of usage.

Features

• Supports dynamic adapters. That means you can add and remove items from your adapter and it will still work nicely.
• You don't have to subclass QuickReturnAdapter in order to use it. Just pass your own adapter to the constructor and you're done.
• Animated transitions via QuickReturnAttacher.setAnimatedTransition(true)
• Supports bottom (footer) quick return position via QuickReturnAttacher.setPosition(QuickReturnListView.POSITION_BOTTOM).
• You can use it with any subclass of AbsListView, including ListView and GridView.
• If you're using a GridView, you have to tell QuickReturnAdapter how many columns it has, via its constructor:
• Automatically adjusts the ListView/GridView to prevent it from being hidden behind the target view, when it is placed at the top of the list.
• Supports ScrollView as well!

public QuickReturnAdapter(final ListAdapter wrappedAdapter, final int numColumns)

Works with API Level 10 and above.

Known issues/Caveats

• The Animated Transition will sometimes hide/show randomly when scrolling down very slowly.

Changelog

Please see the Changelog to check what's recently changed.

Credits

Heavily inspired/influenced by the nice work of Roman Nurik's and Nick Butcher's and Lars Werkman's QuickReturnListView

Contributing

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
• Fork the project
• Start a feature/bugfix branch
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.

Copyright and license

Code and documentation copyright 2011-2014 Felipe Lima. Code released under the MIT license.