HighlightJs View

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CSS
Version
1.5.0 (Mar 23, 2017)
Created
Jun 13, 2016
Updated
Aug 19, 2020 (Retired)
Owner
Patrick Jung (PDDStudio)
Contributors
Justin(Moo Chan) Song (mcsong)
Patrick Jung (PDDStudio)
Łukasz Rutkowski (Tunous)
Iman Ahrari (iahrari)
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HighlightJs View - Android

A syntax highlighting view, powered by highlight.js, for Android.

Demo Application

The demo application shows a simple example usage for this library. It lists the files of this repository's commits and allows you to browse the changed files. Selecting a file show's up the syntax highlighted content.

Screenshot

Download

You can download the sample apk in the release section

Getting Started

Add the library as dependency

Add the library as dependency to your build.gradle file.

dependencies {
 //other dependencies...
 compile 'com.pddstudio:highlightjs-android:X.X.X'
}

Replace X.X.X with the current version - which can be found in the release section

Include the View into your Layout

Add the View to your existing layout file.

<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <!-- Other views here -->

    <com.pddstudio.highlightjs.HighlightJsView
 android:id="@+id/highlight_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

    <!-- Other views here -->

</RelativeLayout>

Assign the view and set it's content

In your Activity/Fragment assign the view and set it's content.

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_syntax);
        //other stuff here ....

        //find and instantiate the view
        highlightJsView = (HighlightJsView) findViewById(R.id.highlight_view);

  //optional: register callbacks and style the view

        //register theme change listener
        highlightJsView.setOnThemeChangedListener(this);
        //change theme and set language to auto detect
        highlightJsView.setTheme(Theme.ANDROID_STUDIO);
        highlightJsView.setHighlightLanguage(Language.AUTO_DETECT);
        //load the source (can be loaded by String, File or URL)
        highlightJsView.setSource(fileObject.getUrl());
    }

Customize the View

For a complete overview of all themes and languages you can check out the official highlight.js demo here

You can customize the View's Theme and Language. By default the Theme is set to Theme.DEFAULT and the language is set to Language.AUTO_DETECT

Change the view's theme:

//change theme
highlightJsView.setTheme(Theme.ANDROID_STUDIO);

The library supports all themes that are included in highlight.js version 9.10.0

Browse the list of themes here

Change the view's language:

//change language
highlightJsView.setHighlightLanguage(Language.JAVA);

The library supports all languages that are included in highlight.js version 9.10.0 (more than +130 languages)

Browse the list of languages here

Enable or disable support for zooming:

//enable or disable zooming support for HighlightJsView
//note: in case you change this during runtime don't forget to
//call highlightJsView.reload(); for the changes to apply!
highlightJsView.setZoomSupportEnabled(true);

Enable or disable line numbers:

//enable or disable line numbers on the left side of the source
//note: in case you change this during runtime don't forget to
//call highlightJsView.reload(); for the changes to apply!
highlightJsView.setShowLineNumbers(enableLineNumbers);

By default Highlight.js does not support line numbers. However, thanks to wcoder and all the hard work that was put into highlightjs-line-numbers.js. This made it easy for me to port and include this functionality into this library.

Change the view's source

You can load the source you want to be highlighted by either a String containing the actual source code, a File object which represents the file containing the source code or an URL object to load the source code from a remote Url.

try {
 markdownUrl = new URL("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PDDStudio/highlightjs-android/master/README.md");
} catch (Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
}
//change the displayed source
highlightJsView.setSource(markdownUrl);
//make sure to call reload() when changing content during runtime
highlightJsView.reload();

Notes:

  • Source Code which is loaded via URL requires internet permission (source is loaded asynchronous) <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
  • Source Code which is loaded by a File object from the device's internal storage requires storage permission (especially on +Android 6.0)

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License

    Copyright 2016 Patrick J

    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
    You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
    limitations under the License.

 Copyright (c) 2006, Ivan Sagalaev
 All rights reserved.
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
       documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
     * Neither the name of highlight.js nor the names of its contributors
       may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
       without specific prior written permission.

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