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Add in the Views needed to perform the +1 and Sharing actions
Share Icon
Download icons or generate your own using the standard Android iconography and the Android Asset Studio.
+1 Button
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Next, we're going to add in two
views needed to perform the +1 and
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sharing actions.
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Let's talk about how
these views will work.
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The +1 button is bundled with
Google Play Services Plus Library.
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The +1 button is always
associated with some content.
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That could be a movie, an app, or
in our case, a listing on etsy.
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The +1 button shows to the user's
followers they recommend the content.
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To set the content on the +1
button you supply the URL.
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In our case, we're giving it
the URL of the listing on Etsy.
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This way whether we show
the button in an app or
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on the web the user's +1 recommendation
will be reflected there.
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What happens once the user taps
the button, is the plus library performs
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the plus one action by
communicating with the Google+ API.
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It does this by calling start activity for
result to a Google controlled activity.
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To ensure that the button state is
correct, you need to initialize the +1
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button again,
once you think the state may have changed.
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We'll need to handle
the call to onActivityResult
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in our activity when this happens.
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Now, let's consider sharing.
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Sharing doesn't provide
a view in the plus library.
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To create a button,
I simply use the Android Assets Studio
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to generate a share icon using
the standard Android iconography.
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I provided a link in teacher's notes so
you can create an icon yourself.
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Once I have a button set up,
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I simply set an onClickListener to
know when the user wants to share.
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Sharing is a standard action on
Android and it's done using Intents.
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You could create a generic share intent
and provide some data along with it.
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Using an intent chooser,
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we can provide the user the choice
of what app they want to share with.
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In our app, we're going to use
this as a fallback mechanism
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when sharing directly to
Google+ isn't possible.
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Let's take a short break, and
then dive into the code and
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get these views wired up.
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First, let's set up the +1 button.
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Let's open up the XML file for
our layout and our listing.
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Okay, we're gonna add in the +1
button here, and remember,
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because it's a custom view, we need to
refer to it by the full package name.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and put it
along with this image ImageView, and
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what I'm gonna do is wrap
the ImageView and the +1 button and
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the share button all around
with this relative layout.
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And then we're gonna center the buttons
over the top of the image view.
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So the RelativeLayout will be full width,
match_parent.
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Height will be wrap_content and then
we're gonna put the image view inside.
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And then we're gonna add in our
PlusOneButton and it's found right where,
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com.google.android.gms.plus.PlusOneButton.
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So we got our PlusOneButton.
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And with our +1 button
let's just go ahead and
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give it, the minimum size target for
touch targets is 48dp.
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We're just gonna go and
give it 48dp touch target size.
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And let's not forget that we
want to include an ID here so
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that we can reference this later on,
listing_plus_one_btn.
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And we want to make this +1 one button
above the image but to the right.
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And it's gonna be next to the share
button as well, so let's go ahead and
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give it a few rules here.
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So first we want to line it on the top and
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we want it to align with
our sharing button.
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But we haven't got an ID for that,
cuz we haven't actually created it yet.
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So, let's go ahead and
use the ID we're gonna use in a minute.
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It's gonna be listing_share_btn and
we don't have that yet,
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so let's go ahead and add that next.
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And the share button is actually
just gonna be an image button,
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so the Google+ Library that's part of
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Google+ Services doesn't have
a share button included.
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I'm just gonna use
a regular image button and
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I'm just gonna give it an icon that I've
generated using Android Assets Studio.
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So you can see that I have dropped it
right in here under ic_social_share and
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we can see what that looks like,
it's a standard Android share icon and
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I've colored it red.
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I use Android Asset Studio
to generate this icon for
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me, you can go ahead and do that.
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Just check out the link in teacher's
notes and creat an icon yourself,
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I'm gonna go ahead and
make this 48dps as well.
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The source for this is going
to be our drawable, our icon.
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And let's make sure we include
that id/listing_share_btn.
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And now let's go ahead and
align this where we want it.
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So we'd like this to be in the far
top right of our relative layout, so
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we're gonna align parent true,
and alignParentRight true and
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for support, we need to include
alignParentEnd true as well.
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And now this will be
aligned with the top and
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we also want it to be to
the left of the image button.
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So lets do that to the left
of listing_share_btn, and
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for support, let's make sure we
include run to be to the left so
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that's gonna be to start
of That looks pretty good.
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Now this view doesn't have any children,
so
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I'm just gonna close it using this
short hand tag close for XML.
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And we can just go ahead and
check design view real quick,
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and see if this is aligned like
we want to and we see that.
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Yeah, we're gonna have our image here,
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and even though it doesn't
show up in the custom view.
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You can see the outline of where it'll
be measured out there, and our share
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button is here as well and that looks
pretty good, that's where we want it.
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Ok so, now we need to go back
to our listing adapter and
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we're gonna add these views to our
listing holder, so we have a +1 button.
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And we also have our image button
which is our share button.
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Let's go ahead and add these by getting
a reference to them from our item,
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view we can sure to cast
to the appropriate type
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That looks pretty good.
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And now up here in our onBindViewHolder.
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We can actually go ahead and set up
these views to show, or be enabled or
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not enabled.
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So, if Google Play Service is enabled,
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we want our listening holder and
we want the plus button to be visible.
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And if it's not, if Google Play Service is
not available, we're gonna go ahead and
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not show that, so set visibility to gone.
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And we want to initialize it and
to initialize it
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we need to give it the content that
we want to initialize it with.
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So +1 button we can call initialize and
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what we're gonna do is just get the
listing and we're gonna give it the URL.
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Now, it's also asking us for
an activity request code, so
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when you do the plus one
action as we discussed.
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It's actually gonna call to
a Google controlled activity, so
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we need to give it some kind of request
code to know what is being +1 or not.
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And for this, I'm just gonna go and
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pass in the value that's actually
the position of this item in the list.
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And so, we know that's unique and
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we'll be able to reference that when it
comes back from start activity for result.
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It's gonna come back in
on activity result and
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it'll give us this code
back at that point.
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Now to ensure that the button
looks the way we want it to,
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there's several different
variations on the +1 button.
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And the variation that I wanna
use is an annotation and
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it's the annotation provided by +1 button.
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And there's one,
you can have it as a bubble,
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you can have it with in lying content or
just not.
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I'm gonna use none,
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that means the +1 button is just gonna
show as the plus one button itself.
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There's not gonna be any
annotations attached to it, and
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this will just make it a cleaner UI.
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You will simply see the button
there next to my share button and
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that'll look good for me.
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If you wanna include
the other annotations,
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feel free to do that yourself.
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Now that we've set up the +1 button,
it looks the way we want,
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when the actual +1 button gets tapped,
it's initialized.
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It's gonna call through to
start activity for result,
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come back on an activity
result in the main activity.
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So let's go in here to the main activity,
and in here we need to go ahead and
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check to see if this is our
+1 button coming back to us.
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So when the +1 button comes back,
it's gonna come to onActivityResult.
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And what we wanna do is just make sure
that we update the state of the +1 button.
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So we're gonna go ahead and
call to our adapter and
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just say notify dataset changed.
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And that's gonna be able to
handle redrawing the skate
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of the +1 buttons that
are visible on the screen.
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