How would you make a sub view/screen router?

[alexwhb]

First off thank you guys for building out this framework. From my short experience with it, it's already way more simple than using Fragments/Activities. One thing I've not been able to quite figure out yet is if you can somehow nest screens and give them a different UiContainer, then lose that container when you go to another main screen i.e. scope the sub containers? So instead of switching to a whole new view each time you call router.goTo() you can keep some common elements?

So I have a login form in my app with multiple sub views, each share a common background that should stay fixed, but I'd love to be able to call goTo( new NextScreenName()). Originally I was solving this by having a common Activity and each form view would be it's own fragment. Is this possible with the current framework? Any advice on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated.

[itspbj]

There are multiple solutions we either have in this repository, or are currently exploring. One solution we have for sub view controllers is:

public class ScreenAController extends ViewController {

    @BindView(R2.id.screen_a_container)
    ScreensContainer screensContainer;

    private final SubScreenRouter subScreenRouter;

    private Subscription subscription;

    @Inject
    public ScreenAController(final SubScreenRouter subScreenRouter) {
        this.subScreenRouter = subScreenRouter;
    }

    @Override
    public void onAttach() {
        super.onAttach();
        subscription = subScreenRouter
                .observeRouteChange()
                .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
                .subscribe(onScreenChanged);
        subScreenRouter.goTo(new SubScreenA());
    }

    @Override
    public void onDetach() {
        super.onDetach();
        subscription.unsubscribe();
    }

    @Override
    public int getLayoutId() {
        return R.layout.screen_a_view;
    }

    private Action1<RouteChange> onScreenChanged = new Action1<RouteChange>() {
        @Override
        public void call(RouteChange routeChange) {
            List<Screen> toPath = routeChange.getRoute();

            if (!toPath.isEmpty()) {
                Screen next = toPath.get(toPath.size() - 1);
            }

            Keyboard.hideKeyboard(screensContainer);

            screensContainer.goTo(routeChange);
        }
    };
}

This way, you can keep another backstack inside of your screen, similar to a sub view controller.

[dschaller]

Thank you for you contribution to this repository.

Closing this contribution as this repository is being archived.