the

AckeeCZ/anko-constraint-layout

branch looks like it’s got some amazing work done

I love declarative UI’s like this, but it’s all far from production-ready

its actually our’s company CL DSL for Anko 🙂 but Anko has its own implementation of constraint layout

Ah, neat! So you feel like that fork is production-capable? I’d love to explore it and help contribute, but it appears to be inactive

well its not a fork 🙂 its just a DSL for constraint layout .. its like a plugin

Ah, gotcha!

And it’s compatible with the Anko DSL builders

I’ll give it a shot, thanks

Hi! Any idea why the themed version crashes, with

UnsupportedOperationException

?

themedEditText

works fine, for instance.

// fine
    textView("> Hello from code $count") {
    }

    // crashes
    themedTextView("> Hello from code $count", theme = R.style.TextLarge2) {
    }

AS 3.2, anko 0.10.8

Hi. I am seeing different behavior when applying the same style in XML and when applying it through anko. Any idea?

<style name="ButtonFlat" parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.Button.Borderless">
        <!-- Borderless contains just this:   <item name="android:background">@drawable/abc_btn_borderless_material</item>-->

        <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    </style>

<Button
                    android:id="@+id/btnPercentage"
                    style="@style/ButtonFlat"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:paddingLeft="0dp"
                    android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ui_icon_triangle"
                    android:text="Percentage"/>

themedButton("Take photo", R.style.ButtonFlat) {
                        onClick {

                        }
                    }.lparams(wrapContent, wrapContent) {
                        gravity = Gravity.CENTER
                    }

XML-assinged style vs anko-assigned style

You dont set style but theme. Its different thing. https://chris.banes.me/2014/11/12/theme-vs-style/

Is it possible to set style?

@david.bilik @louiscad Since themes and styles differ only in the scope they are applied to (as stated in the linked blog post), why am I getting different results?

Which is the recommended way for saving view states? Btw, is Anko being developed or abandoned?

Abandoned... 😿

@hhariri I have built my app based on anko. Many people here feel it is abandoned. Is Anko going to be updated for AndroidX? Apart from words and personal impressions: Github reports the androidx branch under the “*stale*” tab. No branch is reported as active. Should I ditch months of work and stop using anko?

I think that many times good devs from Jetbrains work on a good community project. It gets very good and very big. After some time, the good JB dev is reassigned to do some more important work, and the project stays abandoned for a lot of time. This isn't the first project this kind of thing happened 😕

Is there any alternative to Anko? I can’t justify starting a new app without androidx...

Today I encountered the

browse(url)

function for creating an implicit intent that opens a link in a browser (https://github.com/Kotlin/anko/wiki/Anko-Commons-%E2%80%93-Intents#useful-intent-callers) for the first time, and like so much of Anko, it’s awesome. Thanks to anyone working on the project 🙂

Hey guys, I’m working on a solution for building layouts using pure Kotlin. It’s more of a research kind of thing at the moment so bare with me. Here’s a quick demo, link to the repo in the video description. Let me know your thoughts!

Hello, I'm new to Android and Anko as a whole and am struggling to make the connection between my business logic, my activity and the layout. Does Anko have any data-binding sort of ordeal for it's layouts and what is the practice for returning that data back to the activity, a public function accessed from an onClick or something else?

Hey! I am trying to build anko like it written in https://github.com/Kotlin/anko/wiki/Building-Anko and got an error while running ant -f update_dependencies.xml

Can't get https://repository.jetbrains.com/remote-repos/net/sf/proguard/proguard-base/5.1/proguard-base-5.1.jar

Anyone else encountered such errors?

@vyacheslav.gerasimov Hi there! What are your plans regarding AndroidX support in anko? 5 months ago I was told by @yan that you will complete work on AndroidX. I am about to start a new project, and I am puzzled. I want to reuse anko code from another project, and I am hesitating. @hhariri Don’t you feel that a 15.000 stars project deserves some love?

I think we had this discussion earlier, in february

Not a lot of things happening in Anko 😕

5 months later and after Google I/O, I hope the JetBrains people can share more information with us.

hi folks, I haven’t used anko, I’m trying to understand more. But, I got confused in the repository, I found this:

implementation "org.jetbrains.anko:anko-sdk25:$anko_version" // sdk15, sdk19, sdk21, sdk23 are also available

But, what is the difference between

sdk25

and others? I mean, if my android project is supporting a minimum target of sdk 19, I should import all the anko sdks from 19 to 25 ?

💬 Hello everyone! After some internal discussion, we decided to deprecate Anko. Some of you already knew about it, and now it’s official. You can find the details here: https://github.com/Kotlin/anko/blob/master/GOODBYE.md. Thank you for your continuous support throughout these years!

Anyone out there hanging on to the bitter end with Anko? Curious if there’s a Maven/Gradle repo with the sdk28 dependencies from 0.10.8…