A Sample application to demonstrate @mention, emoticons and weburl extraction from given text/message
Version : 1.0
What this app can do?
- Allows you to type text, get the text and parse of required values like @mentions, emoticons and weburl (http/https and http less urls)
- get those , seggregate and print the values on new textview.
- For website title, it will load the webside in WebView and get the title and update in link object.
Are we following MVC pattern?
- Yes.
- How? -> Whole UI/View elements are restricted into Activity -> Logical part is defined in ParserHanlder class -> Utility methods are defined in Utils class -> Without worrying about Views, Both ParserHandler and Utils will function. Both are POJO classes.
Are we using Google's Protocol Buffer for data design?
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Yes.
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Why & Why not JSON/GSON?
- As per requirement we have to provide json as output. But json/gson is too slow to handle in Android environment. So we are using Google's protocol buffer, construct data design using that and store text data on this.
- Conversion between POJO to JSON is painstaking, While in Proto data is defined as POJO.
- Wire Transfer is faster in bytestream case than json/string.
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What is protoBuf?
- Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. They are language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler
What we can expect in Version 2.0?
- Auto Suggesion List (popup) for @mention and emoticons
- Render / Give Preview for Links once message sent.