Merkja for Android

A very simple single class Markdown renderer for when you only need the basic syntax and don't want to add a 3rd-party dependency. Warning: Contains hacky regex and span mangling, I have no idea how unoptimised it is. There is no error checking and if you pass anything other than really simple markdown it will break.

It's not meant to be a replacement for a full-featured library, if you need full Markdown support use Markwon

This isn't a library, just copy the Merkja class to your project.

Simple

text_view.text = markdownString
Merkja(text_view).render()

Handling Links and Images

text_view.text = markdownString

val merkja = Merkja(text_view) { matchEvent ->

    when (matchEvent.schemeType){
        Merkja.SCHEME_IMAGE -> loadImage(matchEvent)
        Merkja.SCHEME_LINK -> handleLink(matchEvent)
    }
}
merkja.render()

...

fun loadImage(matchEvent: MatchEvent){
    val imageUrl = matchEvent.value
    //fetch image async then:
    runOnUiThread {
        merkja.insertImage(bitmap, matchEvent)
    }
}

Supported

Big headers down to small headers
Bold
italics
inline code
Local images
Async remote images
Local and remote links (websites and local markdown files)
Ordered and unordered lists
code blocks
Quotes

Coming Soon

Horizontal rule

Not Supported