Customize Navigation View UI elements
Navigation View is the UI provided to show the navigation route process. In this example we will show how to do customization on Navigation View, including:
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Add a new UI element by customizing the activity layout
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Show or hide existing Navigation View UI elements
As is shown in the above image, we customized the Navigation View app bar and added a switch button to it. A user tapping the switch button will change the visibility of two UI elements (Recenter Button and Sound button), which are originally existing in Navigation View.
For all code examples, refer to Navigation Code Examples
activity_custom_element_visibility.xml view source
1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
2<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
3 xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
4 xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
5 android:layout_width="match_parent"
6 android:layout_height="match_parent"
7 tools:context=".activity.CustomElementVisibilityActivity">
8
9 <ai.nextbillion.navigation.ui.NavigationView
10 android:id="@+id/custom_element_navigation_view"
11 android:layout_width="match_parent"
12 android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
13
14</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>CustomElementVisibilityActivity view source
1package ai.nextbillion.navigation.demo.activity;
2
3import android.os.Bundle;
4import android.view.Menu;
5import android.view.MenuItem;
6
7import ai.nextbillion.kits.directions.models.DirectionsResponse;
8import ai.nextbillion.kits.directions.models.RouteRequestParams;
9import ai.nextbillion.navigation.core.routefetcher.RequestParamsWrapper;
10import ai.nextbillion.navigation.demo.R;
11import ai.nextbillion.navigation.ui.NavViewConfig;
12import ai.nextbillion.navigation.ui.NavigationView;
13import ai.nextbillion.navigation.ui.OnNavigationReadyCallback;
14import ai.nextbillion.navigation.ui.listeners.NavigationListener;
15
16import android.annotation.Nullable;
17import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
18import androidx.appcompat.widget.SwitchCompat;
19
20
21import java.io.IOException;
22import java.io.InputStream;
23import java.util.Scanner;
24
25/***
26 * This class demonstrates how to add an extra switch button on Appbar
27 * and use the switch button to control the display of UI elements in Navigation view
28 */
29
30public class CustomElementVisibilityActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements OnNavigationReadyCallback, NavigationListener {
31 private NavigationView navigationView;
32
33 @Override
34 protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
35 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
36 setContentView(R.layout.activity_custom_element_visibility);
37 navigationView = findViewById(R.id.custom_element_navigation_view);
38 navigationView.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
39 navigationView.initialize(this);
40 }
41
42 @Override
43 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
44 // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
45 getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.mainmenu, menu);
46 MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.myswitch);
47 SwitchCompat mySwitch = (SwitchCompat) item.getActionView();
48
49 // adding this here to keep the initial display consistency of the UI elements
50 controlDisplayOfElements(mySwitch.isChecked());
51 // The on-click event will be triggered each time user clicks the switch button on the App bar
52 mySwitch.setOnCheckedChangeListener((buttonView, isChecked) -> {
53 controlDisplayOfElements(isChecked);
54 });
55 return true;
56 }
57
58 private void controlDisplayOfElements(boolean shouldDisplay) {
59 if (shouldDisplay) {
60 navigationView.showRecenterBtn();
61 navigationView.retrieveSoundButton().show();
62 } else {
63 navigationView.hideRecenterBtn();
64 navigationView.retrieveSoundButton().hide();
65 }
66 }
67
68 @Override
69 public void onNavigationReady(boolean b) {
70 // read original backend response from file
71 DirectionsResponse response = DirectionsResponse.fromJson(loadJsonFromAsset());
72 // modify the backend response following normal api call process
73 DirectionsResponse modifiedResponse = new RequestParamsWrapper().wrapRequestParams(response, RouteRequestParams.builder().build());
74 NavViewConfig.Builder config =
75 NavViewConfig.builder().route(modifiedResponse.routes().get(0))
76 // The visibility of speedometer can be set here before starting navigation
77 .showSpeedometer(true)
78 // add this so the exit button in Navigation view would work
79 .navigationListener(this)
80 .shouldSimulateRoute(true);
81 navigationView.startNavigation(config.build());
82 }
83
84 private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
85 Scanner s = new Scanner(is).useDelimiter("\\A");
86 return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
87 }
88
89 private String loadJsonFromAsset() {
90 // Using this method to load GeoJSON files from the assets folder.
91 try {
92 return convertStreamToString(getApplicationContext().getAssets().open("directions-route.json"));
93 } catch (IOException ex) {
94 ex.printStackTrace();
95 return null;
96 }
97 }
98
99 @Override
100 public void onStart() {
101 super.onStart();
102 navigationView.onStart();
103 }
104
105 @Override
106 public void onResume() {
107 super.onResume();
108 navigationView.onResume();
109 }
110
111 @Override
112 public void onLowMemory() {
113 super.onLowMemory();
114 navigationView.onLowMemory();
115 }
116
117 @Override
118 public void onBackPressed() {
119 // If the navigation view didn't need to do anything, call super
120 if (!navigationView.onBackPressed()) {
121 super.onBackPressed();
122 }
123 }
124
125 @Override
126 protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
127 navigationView.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
128 super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
129 }
130
131 @Override
132 protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
133 super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
134 navigationView.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
135 }
136
137
138 @Override
139 public void onPause() {
140 super.onPause();
141 navigationView.onPause();
142 }
143
144 @Override
145 public void onStop() {
146 super.onStop();
147 navigationView.onStop();
148 }
149
150 @Override
151 protected void onDestroy() {
152 super.onDestroy();
153 navigationView.onDestroy();
154 }
155
156 @Override
157 public void onCancelNavigation() {
158 finish();
159 }
160
161 @Override
162 public void onNavigationFinished() {
163
164 }
165
166 @Override
167 public void onNavigationRunning() {
168
169 }
170}Code Highlights
The main logic of the code example is to use a switch button to control the visibility of the Recenter button and the Sound button in the navigation view.
The controlDisPlayOfElement() function shows how to display or hide the corresponding view during navigation.
Code summary
The code snippet is for an Android activity that allows users to control the visibility of elements in a navigation view. The activity extends the AppCompatActivity class and implements the OnNavigationReadyCallback and NavigationListener interfaces.
The activity's onCreate() method first inflates the activity_custom_element_visibility layout. It then finds the navigationView view in the layout and calls its onCreate() method. Finally, it calls the initialize() method on the navigationView to initialize it.
The activity's onCreateOptionsMenu() method inflates the mainmenu menu. It then finds the myswitch menu item and gets its SwitchCompat view. The activity then calls the controlDisplayOfElements() method to set the initial visibility of the elements in the navigation view. The activity also sets a listener on the myswitch view so that it can be updated when the user changes the switch's state.
The controlDisplayOfElements() method takes a boolean value as input. If the value is true, the method shows the Recenter button and the Sound button in the navigation view. If the value is false, the method hides the buttons.
The onNavigationReady() method is called when the navigation view is ready. The method reads the original backend response from a file. It then modifies the response and creates a NavViewConfig object. The NavViewConfig object specifies the route that will be navigated, whether the speedometer will be shown and whether the navigation listener will be used. The method then calls the startNavigation() method on the navigation view to start navigation.
The convertStreamToString() method converts an input stream to a string. The method uses a Scanner object to read the stream and a delimiter to determine where the stream ends.
The loadJsonFromAsset() method loads a GeoJSON file from the assets folder. The method tries to open the file and read its contents. If the file cannot be opened, the method returns null.
The activity uses the NavigationView class to display a navigation view in the user interface. The activity also uses the OnNavigationReadyCallback and NavigationListener interfaces to interact with the navigation view.
