Enamel

If you're tired of Canvas code being too verbose, this is the solution you're looking for.

Examples

TODO add gifs

Concepts

Shapes

Enamel currently features 4 basic shapes you can play with. More to come!

Rectangle
Circle
Oval
Line

E

All the shapes are actually interfaces, thus they have no constructors.

That's where the E object comes into play. It allows to easily create EShape instances

Style

Abstracting the Paint class, allowing the use of stroke and fill colours at the same time:


    val circleVE = E.Circle(radius = 10.dp).toVisualEntity { circle ->
        strokeColor = Color.RED
        strokeWidth = 2.dp
        fillShader = circle
            .diagonalTLBR() // creates a line from top left to bottom right
            .toShader(Color.RED, Color.YELLOW) // converts it to a linear gradient with these colours
    }.toAndroid()

    canvas.drawFromCenter {
        draw(circleVE)
    }

TODO Add image

Here we're creating a circle with a radius of 10, we give it a red stroke of 2dp.

Next, we create a diagonal ELine inside this circle and convert it to a LinearGradient

This project aiming to be multiplatform, toAndroid() is required to actually create the paints

Moving things around

Copy

Before moving a shape, you might want to make a copy of it. EShape<T> has a function that returns a copy of itself fun copy() : T So we have the following interface ECircle : EShape<ECircle>. Keep this in mind if you want to add custom shapes, it needs to be copyable.

Self/Set functions and mutability

Any function that starts with the word self or set will mutate the object. Any other function won't - TODO: Update code to reflect this

Example:

    val square = E.Rect.Square(100)
    square.offset(10,10) // returns a new rectangle
    square.selfOffset(10,10) // updates the current rectangle

Alignment

Any shape can be aligned relative to any other shape. When moving a shape, you can either create a copy at that new location or modify one to avoid memory allocation

val rect = E.Rect(x = 0, y = 0, width = 100.dp, height = 100.dp)
val circle = E.Circle(radius = 10.dp)

// Creates a new circle at the top left of the rectangle, inside the rectangle
val newCircleOutside = circle.alignedOutside(rect, EAlignment.topLeft)
// Creates a new circle at the top left of the rectangle, outside the rectangle
val newCircleInside = circle.alignedOutside(rect, EAlignment.topLeft)

// Move the circle at the top left of the rectangle, inside the rectangle
circle.selfAlignInside(rect, EAlignment.topLeft)

// Move the circle at the top left of the rectangle, outside the rectangle
circle.selfAlignOutside(rect, EAlignment.topLeft)

TODO add alignments images

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