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lygttpod/supertextview

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TLDR

SuperTextView is an Android library that packs multi-position text layout, icons, checkboxes, rounded corners, and ripple effects into a single configurable view, replacing many custom XML layouts with one component.

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  root((SuperTextView))
    Features
      Multi-position text
      Icon support
      Rounded corners
      Ripple effects
    Related Components
      SuperButton
      CommonTextView
    Tech Stack
      Java
      Android
      Gradle
      JitPack
    Use Cases
      List items
      Custom buttons
      Product cards
    Audience
      Android developers
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build a list item with title, subtitle, and a right-side arrow icon without writing a custom XML layout.

USE CASE 2

Style a button with rounded corners and a ripple effect directly in XML without separate drawable shape files.

USE CASE 3

Create a multi-column text card for a product listing with labels at different corner positions.

USE CASE 4

Add a checkbox or divider line to a list item view using a single component instead of nested views.

Tech stack

JavaAndroidGradleJitPack

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Add via JitPack in your Gradle build file, supports Android API 14 and above.

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In plain English

SuperTextView is an Android library that extends the standard text display element in a way that covers many common layout patterns that developers would otherwise have to build from scratch. In Android development, a TextView is the basic building block for showing text on screen. SuperTextView wraps that concept into a more capable component that can hold multiple pieces of text at once, arranged in a grid of positions: top-left, center-left, bottom-left, top-center, center, bottom-center, top-right, center-right, and bottom-right. Beyond text arrangement, the component supports icons on the left and right sides, checkboxes, divider lines between list items, ripple touch effects, and customizable backgrounds with rounded corners, border colors, border widths, and solid fill colors. These styling options can be set directly in the XML layout file or through a chain of method calls in Java code, without needing separate drawable shape files for each variation. The repository also includes two related components. SuperButton applies the same shape and styling features specifically to buttons, making it simpler to define how a button looks without writing separate XML shape definitions. CommonTextView is a lighter version of SuperTextView with the same set of layout positions but simplified internal logic. The README is written in Chinese and includes code samples showing how to add the library to an Android project via Gradle, how to place the component in a layout file with various attributes set, and how to attach click listeners to individual zones within the view. The library supports Android API level 14 and above. It is distributed through JitPack, a package hosting service for GitHub projects.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to add SuperTextView to an Android project via Gradle and JitPack, then display a title and subtitle with a right-side icon in a list item.
Prompt 2
How do I set rounded corners, a border color, and a solid background fill on a SuperTextView in XML?
Prompt 3
Walk me through using SuperButton from the SuperTextView library to style a button without a separate XML drawable shape file.
Prompt 4
How do I attach separate click listeners to the left icon zone and the right icon zone of a SuperTextView?
Prompt 5
Show me how to add a divider line and a checkbox to a SuperTextView list item using XML attributes.
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