I just created class VibratingTextView
. I intend to create a whole library of widgets so I want to do it the right way.
The xml for this View:
<sherif.android.textview.VibratingTextView
android:id="@+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:text="outToRight" >
</sherif.android.textview.VibratingTextView>
Notice it has android:orientation
and android:text
. It accepts the attributes of a TextView
and of a LinearLayout
. The class itself extends LinearLayout
.
My problem is in the xml editor of eclipse. When the user types android:
, eclipse's intellisense gives the user the options available in this namespace.
In my case, it is giving the attributes of LinearLayout
so, for example, Text
and TextSize
do not appear.
Is there a way to make them appear (using the android
namespace)?
If not, should I create my own namespace with attributes that I define? or is there a way to import the android's attributes and make them in sherif's attributes?
Keep in mind that I am creating a TextView in the constructor of my class using the attributes passed. It is working fine and all the attributes for the TextView are being set correctly.
Since I will create many other widgets, I might need my own namespace but what is the best practice? For example, I want to create alwaysVibrate
attribute. It will be something like sherif:alwaysVibrate="true"
. I want my library to be includable and eclipse to show the attributes of my namespace: I use the usual way using attr.xml
?