Monday, January 3, 2011

ResizableButton

Some days ago I read Kirill Grouchnikov's blog post about custom components used in the new android market app.

Unfortunately Kirill didn't provide the src code so I did the ResizableButton code myself. Here's the src code.

The important part is the onLayout code:

@Override
protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int left, int top, int right,
int bottom) {
super.onLayout(changed, left, top, right, bottom);
final int oldWidth = getMeasuredWidth();
final int oldHeight = getMeasuredHeight();
int newWidth;
float size = mTextSize;

do {

setTextSize(size--);
measure(MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
newWidth = getMeasuredWidth();

} while(newWidth > oldWidth);

setMeasuredDimension(oldWidth, oldHeight);
}



Some doubts:
Kirill mentions in his blog post:


As long as the measured width is less than available width – use the left and right parameters passed to onLayout, decrease the text size and repeat.



* It says less than when I am using greater than.
* I am decreasing the font size by 1. I don't know if that is the best way to do this.

What do you guys think?

6 comments:

  1. I tried this out and it works well for the most part. However, when resizing is not needed, the text on the button floats to the left.

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  2. Adding gravity should be enough to center the text.

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  3. I added gravity via setGravity and set it to center and it still didnt work. Not sure what the issue is. Very peculiar.

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  4. had same issue with it left aligning, added the line android:singleLine="true" and it centered.

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