User Interface View Modes Example
This example shows how to change user interface view mode in custom Activity.
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package com.pspdfkit.catalog.examples.kotlin
import android.content.Contextimport android.net.Uriimport android.os.Bundleimport android.view.Menuimport android.view.MenuItemimport android.view.Viewimport com.pspdfkit.catalog.Rimport com.pspdfkit.catalog.SdkExampleimport com.pspdfkit.catalog.tasks.ExtractAssetTaskimport com.pspdfkit.configuration.activity.PdfActivityConfigurationimport com.pspdfkit.configuration.activity.TabBarHidingModeimport com.pspdfkit.configuration.activity.UserInterfaceViewModeimport com.pspdfkit.ui.PdfActivityimport com.pspdfkit.ui.PdfActivityIntentBuilder
/** * This example shows how to change user interface view modes. To do so, it subclasses the * [PdfActivity] and calls [PdfActivity.setUserInterfaceViewMode] method * to toggle between various user interface view modes. */class UserInterfaceViewModesExample(context: Context) : SdkExample(context, R.string.userInterfaceViewModesExampleTitle, R.string.userInterfaceViewModesExampleDescription) { override fun launchExample(context: Context, configuration: PdfActivityConfiguration.Builder) { // Configure the PdfActivity to use the examples subclass. This is // important if your app wants to tweak the default behavior of its implementation. configuration.layout(R.layout.user_interface_view_modes_activity)
// Hide navigation buttons and tab bar since they are not used by this example. configuration.navigationButtonsEnabled(false) configuration.setTabBarHidingMode(TabBarHidingMode.HIDE)
// The custom layout has no content editor. In order to prevent the activity from accessing // it we have to deactivate it in the configuration. configuration.contentEditingEnabled(false)
// Disable measurements as well configuration.setMeasurementToolsEnabled(false)
// We use a custom utility class to extract the example document from the assets. ExtractAssetTask.extract(WELCOME_DOC, title, context) { documentFile -> // Launch the custom example activity using the document and configuration. val intent = PdfActivityIntentBuilder.fromUri(context, Uri.fromFile(documentFile)) .configuration(configuration.build()) .activityClass(UserInterfaceViewModesActivity::class) .build()
// Start the UserInterfaceViewModesActivity for the extracted document. context.startActivity(intent) } }}
/** * This subclass of [PdfActivity] adds a set of actions to change user interface view modes. */class UserInterfaceViewModesActivity : PdfActivity() {
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
findViewById<View>(R.id.show_user_interface_button).setOnClickListener { // This method overrides all restraints on showing user interface. // Shows user interface even when using USER_INTERFACE_VIEW_MODE_HIDDEN. setUserInterfaceVisible(true, true) }
findViewById<View>(R.id.hide_user_interface_button).setOnClickListener { // This method overrides all restraints on hiding user interface. // Hides user interface even when using USER_INTERFACE_MODE_VISIBLE. setUserInterfaceVisible(false, true) } }
override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu): Boolean { super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu) menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.user_interface_view_modes_menu, menu) return true }
override fun onOptionsItemSelected(item: MenuItem): Boolean { val newUserInterfaceViewMode = when (item.itemId) { R.id.user_interface_view_mode_automatic -> { UserInterfaceViewMode.USER_INTERFACE_VIEW_MODE_AUTOMATIC } R.id.user_interface_view_mode_automatic_border_pages -> { UserInterfaceViewMode.USER_INTERFACE_VIEW_MODE_AUTOMATIC_BORDER_PAGES } R.id.user_interface_view_mode_visible -> { UserInterfaceViewMode.USER_INTERFACE_VIEW_MODE_VISIBLE } R.id.user_interface_view_mode_hidden -> { UserInterfaceViewMode.USER_INTERFACE_VIEW_MODE_HIDDEN } R.id.user_interface_view_mode_manual -> { UserInterfaceViewMode.USER_INTERFACE_VIEW_MODE_MANUAL } else -> null } ?: return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item)
this.userInterfaceViewMode = newUserInterfaceViewMode return true }
override fun onUserInterfaceVisibilityChanged(visible: Boolean) { super.onUserInterfaceVisibilityChanged(visible) // You can monitor UI visibility changes by overriding this method. }}This code sample is an example that illustrates how to use our SDK. Please adapt it to your specific use case.