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markormesher / android-fab

Floating action button (FAB) for Android with speed-dial menu functionality
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Naming #19

Closed SeaRoth closed 6 years ago

SeaRoth commented 6 years ago

Why was FloatingActionButton chosen for the class name when Android has one with the same name? android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton

markormesher commented 6 years ago

Hey @SeaRoth. You make a good point - hindsight is a wonderful thing and a unique name probably would have been better! This code started out as a component of a commercial project, which is when the name was selected, and it was open-sourced some time later.

It's unlikely that someone would be using Android's FAB and this one in the same project, so I'm not planning to rename everything, but if it's a causing a problem for you then you could create a "thin copy" of the library...

uk.co.markormesher.android_fab.FloatingActionButton;

public class CustomFloatingActionButton extends FloatingActionButton { }

...and then reference CustomFloatingActionButton throughout your codebase.