DragLinearLayout

An Android LinearLayout that supports draggable and swappable child Views.

Why?

Why bother doing drag & swap in a LinearLayoutwhenthere areso manysolutions for ListView?

1. Simplicity - no need for ListAdapters. By default, works like a LinearLayout.
2. Flexibility - supports heterogeneous, selectively draggable (or not draggable), children.
3. Portability - can be used in any layout, e.g. as a child in a ScrollView container.

Usage

Add it to your project using Gradle:

compile 'com.jmedeisis:draglinearlayout:1.1.0'

The DragLinearLayout can be used in place of any LinearLayout. However, by default, children will not be draggable. To set an existing View as draggable, use DragLinearLayout#setViewDraggable(View, View), passing in the child View and a (non-null!) View that will act as the handle for dragging it (this can be the View itself).

XML layout file:

<com.jmedeisis.draglinearlayout.DragLinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:id="@+id/container"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<TextViewandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="@string/text" />
<ImageViewandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="120dp"android:scaleType="centerCrop"android:src="@drawable/image"/>
<Buttonandroid:id="@+id/button"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="@string/button_text"/>
</com.jmedeisis.draglinearlayout.DragLinearLayout>

Enabling drag & swap for all child views:

DragLinearLayoutdragLinearLayout = (DragLinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.container);
for(inti = 0; i < dragLinearLayout.getChildCount(); i++){
Viewchild = dragLinearLayout.getChildAt(i);
// the child will act as its own drag handledragLinearLayout.setViewDraggable(child, child);
}

Use #addDragView(View, View),#addDragView(View, View, int) and #removeDragView(View) to manage draggable children dynamically:

finalViewview = View.inflate(context, R.layout.view_layout, null);
dragLinearLayout.addDragView(view, view.findViewById(R.id.view_drag_handle));
// ..dragLinearLayout.removeDragView(view);

Attach an OnViewSwapListener with #setOnViewSwapListener(OnViewSwapListener) to detect changes to the ordering of child Views:

dragLinearLayout.setOnViewSwapListener(newDragLinearLayout.OnViewSwapListener() {
@OverridepublicvoidonSwap(ViewfirstView, intfirstPosition,
ViewsecondView, intsecondPosition) {
// update data, etc..
}
});

When placing the DragLinearLayout inside a ScrollView, call #setContainerScrollView(ScrollView) to enable the user to scroll while dragging a child view.

For best visual results, use children that have opaque backgrounds. Furthermore, do not use horizontal padding for the DragLinearLayout; instead, let children apply their own horizontal padding.

Refer to the included sample activity project for a demonstration of the above usage techniques and more.

Limitations

• Supports only the LinearLayout#VERTICAL orientation.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. You may find a copy of the license in the included LICENSE file.