Java Question Additional jar and Markdown .jar

[bluedude]

A very popular way to render HTML is from something called Markdown. I want to support markdown by using AdditionalJar, can that work?

Normally markdown is implemented like:

MarkdownView markdownView = new MarkdownView(this);setContentView(markdownView);

Can we di this by using Javaobject and AdditionalJar?

More info here: https://github.com/Gunio/MarkdownView

 

[Erel]

It should be possible. The code should be quite simple. Try to implement it and if it doesn't work then upload your project.

 

[bluedude]

I hav no clue how to do the oncreate stuff with a java object. It seems we need to bind the markdown library to an activity and that's it. Markdown is very very popular on Github etc.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

You wont be able to use setContentView (that happens before Activity_Create).

This view is essentialyl an extension of webview, I dont know if you just create a webview and assign an instance of the markdownview to it will it work.
Essentially that is assigning a subclass reference to a superclass variable. (Probably compile fail)

It is pretty easy to create a library out of this though. (However documentation will be lost as docs are not inherited).

 

[bluedude]

I would love to see somebody doing it with the Simple Library Compiler so I can also learn. Could you do that? I'm fine to pay a fee of course. Tell me what is reasonable, according to their documentation it seems to be extremely easy.

I will first look around for the best Markdown solution.

Cheers.

 

[bluedude]

Just discovered I can simply do it with a javascript and webview, seems to be working ok.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Thats good. Unfortunately I dont have a lot of time, but I would have liked to show and learn at the same time.

It would have been a simple wrapper as:

public MarkDownViewWrapper extends ViewWrapper<MarkDownView> {

}

Expose its two methods, and another method to return the underlying webview as a (WebViewWrapper).
The only thing I am not sure of is whether returning the webview wrapped into a WebViewWrapper is whether it will contain any LayoutParams.

I wonder what strategy Erel would have applied.