Our October Android digest covers three new libraries that we’ve found really useful. They’re used for restarting application processes, displaying Chips, and working in background threads.
Process Phoenix
Process Phoenix helps restart your application processes.
When to use:
When dealing with things like fundamental state changes in your debug builds (e.g. changing from staging to production or changing the language).
Chips Input Layout
A highly customizable Android ViewGroup for displaying Chips. Chips Input Layout sticks to Material Design Guidelines as much as possible.
Here are some of the core features of this library:
- Filter through Chips as users type
- Let users enter custom Chips
- Specify if Chips show details, are deletable, or have an avatar
- Specify how Chips are managed
- Validate selected Chips with ChipsInputView
- Most views are highly customizable
When to use:
When you need to display Chips..........