RhythmSticks

A debug Android View that overlays a grid to verify UI elements adhere to a visual rhythm.

Usage

Place a RhythmFrameLayout anywhere in your View hierarchy to display a grid over its children. This is typically something you only want in debug builds, and Gradle gives you cool ways of doing that (see example).

RhythmFrameLayout can be used much like Scalpel. Check out Jake Wharton's u2020 example app for ideas on how you could include some rhythm in your debug builds.

RhythmFrameLayout has four modes:

• MODE_LEFT_RIGHT: Grid is rendered from left and right, fading in the middle
• MODE_TOP_BOTTOM: Grid is rendered from top and bottom, fading in the middle
• MODE_TOP_LEFT: Grid is rendered from top left corner
• MODE_BOTTOM_RIGHT: Grid is rendered from the bottom right corner

It's often useful to change these modes at run time, as most Android screens don't divide neatly by 16dp.

Download

Download the latest JAR or grab via Gradle:

compile 'com.chrishorner:rhythmsticks:1.0.0'

License

Copyright 2014 Christopher Horner

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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