Note

This release upgrades the font detection logic to jetpack appstartup. Please use the latest font dependencies with v5.1.0

Changes

• Remove resource and reflection based font and processor detection logic
• Introduce jetpack appstartup to initialize fonts and processor
  • FIX #503
• Simplify init and setup requirements for Iconics
  • appstartup will initialize the project

Fixes

• (Sample) Fix MaterialDX font not showing up in sample

Dependency updates

Library

• compileSdk 30
• buildTools 30.0.2
• target 30
• kotlin 1.4.10

Sample

• aboutLibs 8.4.2
• materialDrawer 8.1.6
• fastAdapter 5.2.4
• constraintLayout 2.0.2
• material 1.2.1
• appcompat 1.2.0
• core-ktx 1.3.2

Changes

• Split typeface-api to new module
  • Thanks @zTrap
• StyleContainer: use named parameters instead of multiple constructors
  • Thanks @connyduck

Fixes

• /

Fixes

• introduce a custom method to allow providing the R fields if the reflection approach is not possible
  • FIX #498

Fixes

• resolve a wrong log message due to a reversed condition
    - FIX https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-Iconics/issues/497

Fonts

• update to Community Material v5.0.45
  • Thanks @kuba2k2
  • https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-Iconics/pull/496

Fixes

• none (release equal to v5.0.0-b01)

Build

• update to latest detekt 1.7.0
• add gradle validation check to ensure wrapper is valid

Warning

• This is a big refactor of the Android-Iconics library with a large focus on simplifying the core Iconics class and moving as many of the convenient methods into extensions / out of the main class

Fixes

• update dependencies
• kotlin 1.3.70
• material 1.1.0
• drawerLayout 1.1.0-alpha04
• aboutLibraries 8.0.0-rc02
• materialDrawer 8.0.0-rc01
• FastAdapter v5.0.0
• adjust items to match new libraries

Warning

• This is a big refactor of the Android-Iconics library with a large focus on simplifying the core Iconics class and moving as many of the convenient methods into extensions / out of the main class

Fixes

• add error messages in case Iconics was not yet initialized
• fix problem in which initializatoin would not happen soon enough if the context is provided
    - FIX https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-Iconics/issues/492

Warning

• This is a big refactor of the Android-Iconics library with a large focus on simplifying the core Iconics class and moving as many of the convenient methods into extensions / out of the main class

Fixes

• Fix a Kotlin NPE due to a wrong Framework non null annotation

Warning

• This is a big refactor of the Android-Iconics library with a large focus on simplifying the core Iconics class and moving as many of the convenient methods into extensions / out of the main class

Changes

• implement new improved copy method which allows to easily modify the item
• simplify code

Sample

• daynight theme for android iconics sample
• udpate to latest aboutlibraries
• add hamburger icon for v8 drawer
• fix drawer icon colors
• update dependencies
• remove materialize references
• include colors used

Warning

• This is a big refactor of the Android-Iconics library with a large focus on simplifying the core Iconics class and moving as many of the convenient methods into extensions / out of the main class

Breaking Changes

• replaced builder pattern with kotlin properties
• most convenient properties are now kotlin extension properties
• move all producers to producer extensions
• add all convenient setters to the IconicsDrawableExtensions.kt
• introduce new optimized apply functions which will not invalidate while updating properties
• refactor all code to use new properties
• initialization of the iconics fonts is now suggested
• allow to define IconicsDrawable icons via XML starting with API 24+

Sample app

• update to MaterialDrawer v8
• update to FastAdapter v5
• update to AboutLibraries v8

• Add support of auto mirroring on RTL languages
  • Thank you very much @hichamboushaba

• deprecate IconicsLayoutInflater2, IconicsLayoutInflater and IconicsContextWrapper
• changes from v4.0.1-b01 and v4.0.1-b02

• specify the -module-name for kotlin to fix un-expected META-INF conflicts
• update to kotlin 1.3.50
• update gradle build tools

• introduces new Experimental DSL for the IconicsDrawable (API might still change)
  • Thanks @AllanWang (https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-Iconics/pull/461)
• introduce more extension functions to converters
• deprecate old converters, introduce proper replace rule
• deprecate old extension functions in IconicsDrawable class
• refactor code to make use of new proper extension funcions

Font addons

• new Material Design Icons DX (https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-Iconics/pull/464)
  • Thanks @hadi72h

implementation 'com.mikepenz:material-design-icons-dx-typeface:5.0.1.0-kotlin@aar'

(maven central sync still pending)

WARNING

• this release is fully migrated to kotlin
• many breaking changes

MIGRATION core v3.x.x -> 4.x.x

Now libraries is kotlin-first

• Font files
  • Font's store now based on default way to store fonts. (moved from common assets to font-specific resource assets)
• Iconics
  • No context from now required. We get the application context via ContentProvider
• Iconics.IconicsBuilder
  • Renamed to Iconics.Builder
  • Removed ctx(Context) method
• IconicsDrawable
  • Replaced all *Res(int), *Px(int), *Dp(int) method to use IconicsSize and IconicsColor classes instead
  • Constants TOOLBAR_ICON_SIZE and TOOLBAR_ICON_PADDING moved to IconicsSize
  • All getters now have property-syntax
  • All producer-provided methods from Android-Iconics Kt are included in class and can return nullable value (value will be set only when not null)
  • enableShadowSupport(View) moved to IconicsUtils
• All utils classes and typeface libraries now can not be instantiated
• ITypeface
  • Method getTypeface(Context) replaced with field rawTypeface
  • Automatically retrieves raw font from file by provided fontRes (see GenericFont.kt if You wont to use old scheme)
• Some package names for the icon fonts changes
• Old icon fonts are no longer compatible, please update to the kotlin versions

Changes

• Fully migrated to kotlin
• Adjusted many APIs and cleanup
• Add various kotlin extensions to simplify
• New more advanced animation engine
• ...

Depencencies

The following major dependency versions are required:

implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.x.y"
implementation "androidx.core:core-ktx:$versions.ktx.core"
implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.x.y"

WARNING

• includes all changes of v4.0.0-rc01

Changes

• removes kotlin reflect dependency
• fixes community icons proguard specification
• improves proguard rule

• additional stateList improvements for various colors

WARNING

• this release is the first release of Android-Iconics migrated to kotlin.
• many breaking changes!

Changes

• in construction

• FIXES https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-Iconics/issues/442 (for real this time)
  • thanks @zTrap

• FIXES https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-Iconics/issues/442
  • thanks @zTrap