motionscene-merger 2.4

File injection tool for Android developers using MotionLayout. Use scenemerge to reuse ConstraintSet/KeyFrameSet/etc definitions in multiple MotionScenes via a templating system.

scenemerge

File injection tool to allow reuse of ConstraintSet/KeyFrameSet/etc definitions in multiple MotionScenes.

In your environment:

git clone https://github.com/motionscene-merger
python setup install

scenemerge .

Creating merge instructions

In your Android project res/xml directory:

• Create a MotionScene file with content that you want to inject into some other file. The filename must start with _ e.g. res/xml/_my_injectable_motionscene.xml
• Create a template for your parent MotionScene. Again, the filename must start with _ e.g. res/xml/_my_parent_motionscene.xml

  • add a line in this file with <inject src="source_filename"/> e.g:

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
        <MotionScene
            xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
            xmlns:motion="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    
            <!-- Any other content here -->
    
            <inject src="my_injectable_motionscene"/>
    
            <!-- Any other content here -->
    
        </MotionScene>
    

Now when you run scenemerge the content from the MotionScene in _my_injectable_motionscene.xml will be copied in place into a new MotionScene file called my_parent_motionscene.xml in your res/xml directory. The <MotionScene...></MotionScene> tags will not be copied - only the content between them.

Please check the files in test/example_root_dir/res/inject for example source files.

Android Studio File Watcher

• Install the File Watcher plugin for Android Studio via Settings -> Plugins.
• Restart and open Settings -> Tools -> File Watchers, then click the + to create a new Watcher.
• Set File type to XML.
• Create a Scope with a pattern like file[app]:src/**/res/xml/_*.xml
• Set Program to scenemerge in your environment. e.g. env/Scripts/scenemerge
• Set Arguments to .
• Set Working directoryto your app root.
• OK

Now scenemerge should run automatically whenever you edit a res/xml/_YOUR_FILENAME.xml file, creating/updating the merged MotionScene file res/xml/YOUR_FILENAME.xml.

This project was written on a Sunday evening. It is unlikely to have any major updates but feel free to make pull requests or whatever. Hopefully MotionScene will someday have some kind built-in include/merge functionality and make this obsolete but this will have to do for now...