Add Facebook like New Stories button in Android

Nowadays most of users visit Facebook no matter they access by phone, mobile or tablet and this is a part of our habit and definitely you’ll amaze with Facebook new stories feature. In this feature, when you scroll down the Facebook feed then after sometime a small bubble shown on the top with message “New Stories”. When you touch that button it scroll and jump to the latest and newest stories.

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And as a Android developer i also want this features for my Android application. If you’re in the line of my thought then this tutorial could help you more to implement Facebook like New Stories button in Android.

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A library named PopupBubble can do this for you and easily Add “New Post” popup button with the feeds (RecyclerView) of your app.

Min SDK

Minimum sdk is 14 and support is limited to recyclerview for now.

Add With Gradle Dependency

compile 'com.webianks.library:popup-bubble:1.0.5'

Maven:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.webianks.library</groupId>
  <artifactId>popup-bubble</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.5</version>
  <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

Add PopupBubble to layout

<com.webianks.library.PopupBubble
  android:id="@+id/popup_bubble"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>

Positioning of this view can be done according to the need. By default it should be placed in top center. Also it should be placed below recyclerview in layout so that it shows on top of recyclerview.

Example positioning

If its inside RelativeLayout then

<com.webianks.library.PopupBubble
  android:layout_margin="16dp"
  android:id="@+id/popup_bubble"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
/>

Customization Through XML

<!--Change background Color-->
    app:pb_backgroundColor="?attr/colorPrimary"
<!--Change text -->
    app:pb_text="New Stories"
<!--Change text color-->
    app:pb_textColor="#ffffff"
<!--Show/Hide Icon inside the button. By default its true.-->
    app:pb_showIcon="false"
<!--Change icon color-->
    app:pb_iconColor="#ffffff"
<!--Set Different Icons-->
    app:pb_icon="@drawable/ic_new.png"
<!--Set different fonts-->
    app:pb_font="iran_sans_mobile.ttf"

Example : Full Customization

<com.webianks.library.PopupBubble
  xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
  android:layout_margin="16dp"
  android:id="@+id/popup_bubble"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
  app:pb_backgroundColor="?attr/colorPrimary"
  app:pb_iconColor="#ffffff"
  app:pb_text="New Stories"
  app:pb_textColor="#ffffff"
  app:pb_icon="@drawable/ic_keyboard_arrow_up_white_18dp"
  app:pb_font="iran_sans_mobile.ttf"
/>

Access the bubble from Java

PopupBubble popupBubble = (PopupBubble) findViewById(R.id.popup_bubble);

Add listener if you want to know when the bubble is clicked

popupBubble.setPopupBubbleListener(new PopupBubble.PopupBubbleClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void bubbleClicked(Context context) {
  
                //popup_bubble is clicked  
            }
        });

Attach with your RecyclerView

//necessary to add
popupBubble.setRecyclerView(recyclerView);

Helper Methods Hide/Show PopupBubble according to your need

popupBubble.hide();
popupBubble.show();

Control Animations Set false if you dont want any animations. Default value is true.

popupBubble.withAnimation(false);

Update text dynamically Call this method before the activate method to set the new text.

popupBubble.updateText("10 new stories");

Update icon dynamically Call this method before the activate method to set the new Icon.

popupBubble.updateIcon(R.drawable.new_icon);

Update typeface of text dynamically Call this method before the activate method to set the new Typeface.

popupBubble.updateTypeFace(myCustomTypeface);

Most Important

Now download/fetch new content in background and then notify your recyclerview adapter about range of items added and finally activate the PopupBubble to make it appear with animation (if not set false).

//Own logic for fetching new content
 .....      
adapter.notifyItemRangeInserted(0,size_of_new_items_added); // size_of_new_items_added = 10 if 10 new items are added.
popupBubble.activate();