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Name UI states, navigate between them, remember where you've been.
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Is this project abandoned? #279

Open rzmudzin opened 6 years ago

rzmudzin commented 6 years ago

Hasn't been a commit or really much activity in some time and it remains in Alpha.

Zhuinden commented 6 years ago

Probably because they went over to use reactive workflow + state machine bindings, which replace the key manager in this thing. Also if state machines manage the current state, then backstack logic moves there.

It's just a hunch. But you can check out https://github.com/Zhuinden/simple-stack which is created from Flow and therefore has a very similar API, and does the same thing (without the service reference counting thing).

pforhan commented 6 years ago

it's a pretty simple project, we've been using it for years as-is. Probably worth a "real" release though I can't speak to future maintenance.

rzmudzin commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the info. The source does seem pretty straightforward and our needs are pretty simple. @Zhuinden I took a quick look at your simple stack, more robust but the source seems more complicated at first glance - I'll take a longer look. At this point I'm evaluating based "what if I need to extend this lib myself"

Zhuinden commented 6 years ago

@rzmudzin that's odd, I am probably biased but the core functionality is the Backstack + BackstackDelegate (and the StateChanger interface), most other things are default behaviors, helpers and fluff.

The BackstackManager does the actual state persistence, that's true, so that's where some internal magic happens. Namely, what InternalLifecycleIntegration does in Flow.