UiText

Helps you to separate context-specific and context-independent parts of texts.

The problem:

How to store strings / texts in android View Model? The good approach is to store only ids. But what about more complex cases when we need not only simple string by id, but something formatted or even sometimes just plain string?

The solution:

Use UiText wrappers.
Example for typical ViewModel:

_field01.value = UiText.Str("Just string")

_field02.value = UiText.Res(R.string.plain_string)

_field03.value = UiText.Format(R.string.formatted_string, "first", 2, 3f)

_field04.value = UiText.Plural(R.plurals.plural_plain_string, 1)

_field05.value = UiText.PluralFormat(R.plurals.plural_format_string, 3,  1, "2", "3")

In view layer:

textView01.setUiText(it)

In this way we can forget about language changes (view recreation), because we still rely on ids basically.

Need more? Take a look at UiText.Custom

Setup:

1. Add maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' } to the allprojects or dependencyResolutionManagement section in top-level build.gradle or settings.gradle.
   For example (settings.gradle):

dependencyResolutionManagement {
    repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS)
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter() // Warning: this repository is going to shut down soon
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    }
}

2. Add implementation 'com.github.Andrew0000:UiText:$latest_version' to the module-level build.gradle