MarkdownView

MarkdownView is a simple library that helps you display Markdown text or files on Android as a html page just like Github.

Supporting MarkdownView

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Getting started

Its really simple to integrate MarkdownView in android. All you need to do make the following change to you build gradle under the app module.

Step 1. Add the JitPack repository to your build file. Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

allprojects {
  repositories {
    ...
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
  }
}

Step 2. Add the dependency

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.mukeshsolanki:MarkdownView-Android:<latest-version>'
}

How to use MarkdownView

Its fairly simple and straight forward to use MarkdownView in you application. Just add the following in your layout where you want to display the markdown file/text.

<com.mukesh.MarkdownView
    android:id="@+id/markdown_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
/>

and reference it in your activity/fragment and assign the markdown text/file like wise.

MarkdownView markdownView = (MarkdownView) findViewById(R.id.markdown_view);
markdownView.setMarkDownText("# Hello World\nThis is a simple markdown"); //Displays markdown text
...
markdownView.loadMarkdownFromAssets("README.md"); //Loads the markdown file from the assets folder
...
File markdownFile=new File("filePath");
markdownView.loadMarkdownFromFile(markdownFile); //Loads the markdown file.

Author

Maintained by Mukesh Solanki

Contribution

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome.
Make sure you use square/java-code-styles to format your code.

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Mukesh Solanki

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