Android About Page

Create an awesome About Page for your Android App in 2 minutes

This library allows to generate beautiful About Pages with less effort, it's fully customizable and supports opening specific intent

View aboutPage = new AboutPage(this)
  .isRTL(false)
  .setCustomFont(String) // or Typeface
  .setImage(R.drawable.dummy_image)
  .addItem(versionElement)
  .addItem(adsElement)
  .addGroup("Connect with us")
  .addEmail("elmehdi.sakout@gmail.com")
  .addWebsite("https://mehdisakout.com/")
  .addFacebook("the.medy")
  .addTwitter("medyo80")
  .addYoutube("UCdPQtdWIsg7_pi4mrRu46vA")
  .addPlayStore("com.ideashower.readitlater.pro")
  .addGitHub("medyo")
  .addInstagram("medyo80")
  .create();

Setup

Available on Jcenter, Maven and JitPack

implementation 'io.github.medyo:android-about-page:2.0.0'

Usage

1. Add Description

setDescription(String)

2. Add Image

setImage(Int)

3. Add predefined Social network

The library has already some predefined social networks like :

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Youtube
• PlayStore

addFacebook(String PageID)
addTwitter(String AccountID)
addYoutube(String AccountID)
addPlayStore(String PackageName)
addInstagram(String AccountID)
addGitHub(String AccountID)

4. Add Custom Element

For example app version :

Element versionElement = new Element();
versionElement.setTitle("Version 6.2");
addItem(versionElement)

5. Available attributes for Element Class

Function	Description
setTitle(String)	Set title of the element
setIconTint(Int)	Set color of the element
setSkipTint(Boolean)	Skip tinting the icon (useful when using non vector drawables)
setIconDrawable(Int)	Set icon of the element
setValue(String)	Set Element value like Facebook ID
setIntent(Intent)	Set an intent to be called on onClickListener
setGravity(Gravity)	Set a Gravity for the element
setOnClickListener(View.OnClickListener)	If intent isn't suitable for you need, implement your custom behaviour by overriding the click listener

6. How to use the library in a fragment

 @Override
    public View onCreateView(@NonNull LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        return new AboutPage(getContext())
                .isRTL(false)
                .setDescription(getString(R.string.app_description))
                .addGroup(getString(R.string.contact_group))
                .addEmail("us@example.com", "Email")
                .addGroup(getString(R.string.application_information_group))
                .addItem(new VersionElement())
                .create();
    }

snippet by nrhoffmann

7. Styling

The library supports day-night modes. The dependents may use the following styling attributes to create a dedicated style for AboutPage. If the dependents choose not to specify an explicit style, the library falls back to sensible defaults.

First, declare an AboutPage style in your styles.xml.

<!-- Define a global style for AboutPage in your 'styles.xml' -->
<style name="Widget.App.AboutPage" parent="about_About">
  <item name="aboutBackground">#ffffff</item>
  <item name="aboutElementIconTint">#333333</item>
  <item name="aboutSeparatorColor">#999999</item>
  <item name="aboutDescriptionTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.App.AboutPage.Description</item>

  <!-- similarly, you can also apply the following text appearances -->
  <item name="aboutElementTextAppearance">@style/about_elementTextAppearance.Dark</item>
  <item name="aboutGroupTextAppearance">@style/about_groupTextAppearance</item>
</style>

<style name="TextAppearance.App.AboutPage.Description" parent="about_descriptionTextAppearance.Dark">
  <item name="android:textStyle">bold|italic</item>
</style>

To apply this style globally, assign its reference to aboutStyle attribute in your app theme.

<style name="Theme.App" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
  <item name="aboutStyle">@style/Widget.AboutPage</item>
</style>

Or explicitly pass the style resource to the AboutPage constructor to apply it on selective AboutPage instances.

AboutPage aboutPage = new AboutPage(context, R.style.Widget_AboutPage);

8. Force Night/Day mode

We recommend that the dependents use AppCompatDelegate.setDefaultNightMode() to force enable/disable the night mode across their apps. If the dependents are unable to use the recommended approach, they can use the AboutPage(Context, boolean) constructor to specify the desired mode. The dependents must note that by using this constructor, the AboutPage will use its default styles, ignoring any explicitly specified style.

AboutPage aboutPage = AboutPage(context, true); // force enable dark mode.
AboutPage aboutPage = AboutPage(context, false); // force enable bright mode.

Sample Project

medyo/android-about-page/app/

Translations

The library does supports the following languages :

• Arabic (by zecharyah)
• Catalan (by unxavi)
• Croatian (by skmlcd)
• Czech (by semanticer)
• Dutch (by artaex)
• English (by medyo)
• French (by medyo)
• Georgian (by tatocaster)
• German (by vanniktech && nikothegreek)
• Greek (by jvoyatz)
• Hungarian (by jbarat)
• Indian (by kartikarora)
• Indonesian (by hyuwah)
• Italian (by greenaddress)
• Japanese (by chibatching)
• Korean (by Alfex4936)
• Persian (by mortezasun)
• Polish (by karmil32)
• Portuguese Brazil (by rbaprado)
• Romanian (by Vally79)
• Russian (by NumezmaT)
• Serbian (by ljmocic)
• Simplified Chinese (by )

Please make a Pull request to add a new language.

ProGuard

Nothing to include

License

The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Mehdi Sakout

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.