LinkedIn.Spyglass .NET-Android Binding Library

Spyglass

A powerful Android library that provides highly-customizable widgets (with smart defaults) to easily add social-media-esque mention (aka tag) support to your app

For a broad overview, check out our blog post at the LinkedIn engineering blog.

Features

• A subclass of EditText that contains enhanced functionality in order to tokenize user input and display mentions
• A custom view, similar to a MultiAutoCompleteTextView, that displays suggestions in an embedded ListView rather than a Popup
• Custom tokenizer interface, including a default implementation containing several options for customization
• Designed to handle suggestions dynamically as are retrieved from multiple data sources
• Supports both implicit and explicit (i.e. "@User Name") mentions

Overview

Spyglass is divided into three, customizable layers: tokenization, suggestions, and mentions. Together, these layers form the update lifecycle used within Spyglass:

1. User types a character
2. Tokenize input
3. Generate and display suggestions
4. User taps a suggestion
5. Insert and display mention

For sample setup of custom view that shows mentions list and appears on "@" character type see GridMentions.cs in Activity Sample project