TextLayoutBuilder

Build text Layouts easily on Android.

Features

• Create text Layouts easily.
• Reuse builders to create similarly styled Layouts.
• Cache Layouts of commonly used strings.
• Improve performance by warming up the FreeType cache.

Download

If using Gradle, add this to your build.gradle:

compile 'com.facebook.fbui.textlayoutbuilder:textlayoutbuilder:1.7.0'

or, if using Maven:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.facebook.fbui.textlayoutbuilder</groupId>
  <artifactId>textlayoutbuilder</artifactId>
  <version>1.7.0</version>
  <type>aar</type>
</dependency>

Usage

1. Set the properties on the TextLayoutBuilder:

TextLayoutBuilder builder = new TextLayoutBuilder()
    .setText("TextLayoutBuilder makes life easy")
    .setTextColor(Color.BLUE)
    .setWidth(400 /*, MEASURE_MODE_EXACTLY */);

2. Call build() on the builder to get a Layout:

Layout layout = builder.build();

3. Use the Layout in your code:

public class CustomView extends View {
    private Layout layout;

    public CustomView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public void setLayout(Layout layout) {
        this.layout = layout;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        super.onDraw(canvas);

        // Draw the layout.
        layout.draw(canvas);
    }
}

Additional Usage

1. Cache the layouts for commonly used strings by turning on caching in the TextLayoutBuilder.

textLayoutBuilder.setShouldCacheLayout(true);

2. Glyph warming provides significant performance boost for large blurbs of text. Turn this on and pass in a GlyphWarmer for the TextLayoutBuilder.

textLayoutBuilder
    .setShouldWarmText(true)
    .setGlyphWarmer(new GlyphWarmerImpl());

3. Import a style defined in XML into a TextLayoutBuilder object.

ResourceTextLayoutHelper.updateFromStyleResource(
    textLayoutBuilder, // builder object
    context,           // Activity context
    resId);            // style resource id

License

TextLayoutBuilder is Apache-2-licensed.