WaitingDots

Small library that provides... bouncing dots. This feature is used in number of messaging apps (such as Hangouts or Messenger), and lately in Android TV (for example when connecting to Wifi).

Gradle depedency

    implementation 'com.github.tajchert:WaitingDots:0.6.1'

Add Jitpack in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

 allprojects {
  repositories {
   ...
   maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
  }
 }

Example

...
xmlns:dots="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
...
<pl.tajchert.waitingdots.DotsTextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/dots"
    android:textSize="45sp"
    android:textColor="@android:color/text_color"
    dots:autoplay="false"
    dots:period="1000"/>

All aditional parameters are optional.

List of useful methods:

dots.stop();
dots.start();

dots.hide();
dots.show();

dots.hideAndStop();
dots.showAndPlay();

dots.isHide();
dots.isPlaying();

Proguard

-dontwarn pl.tajchert.waitingdots.**
-keep public class pl.tajchert.waitingdots.** { public protected private *; }

AndroidX and Kotlin

Kotlin since version 0.6.1. AndroidX since 0.6.0. Last build without AndroidX: 0.5.2.

Thanks goes to:

Polidea - time, atmosphere and motivation to create outstanding things.

Zielony - many tips and initial commit.

Krzysztof Bielicki - nice pull request that optimised performance and added text Appearance support (0.1.0 -> 0.2.0).