feat(): switch component

[devversion]

Hello,
Just wanted to know, if someone is already working on the switch component?
As I recently trying things with Angular 2 I built a few components and would like to help if desired at the material2 component. I know it's still in early stages, but I think it never hurts to ask.

[jelbourn]

We definitely plan on building one, but we're waiting for completion of both the checkbox (#35) since it will share most of the code, and gestures (#72) for having a common way of doing the sliding. Once those pieces are done I'll come back and update this issue.

[devversion]

@jelbourn Is this now unblocked? Since HammerJS is now available.

[jelbourn]

@devversion I suppose it is. Is this something you want to contribute?

Couple of notes:

• A lot of the TS code should be shared between this and checkbox.
• Users should be able to drag the switch part.

[jelbourn]

cc @kara

[devversion]

@jelbourn Yes definitely.

I already implemented it myself a few months ago (#7)

• But you may have noticed, it used much things from Material 1 and even used an internal gesture service.

I will start working on this new component the next days (ngMaterial 1.1.0) and will not reuse some old snippets of Material 1.

I try to extend as much as possible and also work on the drag for the switch part.

[jelbourn]

@devversion it would be good to break the work into stages. Something like:

1. Add empty skeleton for slide-toggle
2. Refactor any checkbox code that would be used by both (could also be borken into smaller PRs)
3. Add the dragging to the slide-toggle

(I forgot to mention earlier, we want to change the name to md-slide-toggle since "switch" is already overloaded with the switch control construct, e.g., ng-switch).

[devversion]

@jelbourn Yea this sounds good. Am I allowed to ask some questions on Slack, if needed?

[jelbourn]

@devversion of course!