Placeholder¶

Warning

This library is deprecated, and the API is no longer maintained. We recommend forking the implementation and customising it to your needs. The original documentation is below.

A library which provides a modifier for display 'placeholder' UI while content is loading.

More information on the UX provided by this library can be found on the Material Theming Placeholder UI guidelines.

There are actually two versions of the library available:

Placeholder Foundation: Provides the base functionality and depends on Jetpack Compose Foundation. This version requires the app to provide all of the colors to display.
Placeholder Material. This uses the foundation library above, but also provides sensible default colors using your app's Material color palette.

Tip

You only need to use one of the libraries, and most apps should use Placeholder Material. The APIs of the libraries are (mostly) equivalent with only the imports being different. Where possible we have provided equivalent code samples below.

Basic usage¶

At the most basic usage, the modifier will draw a shape over your composable content, filled with the provided color.

Basic Placeholder demo

Placeholder MaterialPlaceholder Foundation

import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.material.placeholder

Text(
    text = "Content to display after content has loaded",
    modifier = Modifier
        .padding(16.dp)
        .placeholder(visible = true)
)

import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.placeholder

Text(
    text = "Content to display after content has loaded",
    modifier = Modifier
        .padding(16.dp)
        .placeholder(
            visible = true,
            color = Color.Gray,
            // optional, defaults to RectangleShape
            shape = RoundedCornerShape(4.dp),
        )
)

Placeholder highlights¶

The library also provides some 'highlight' animations to entertain the user while they are waiting. There are two provided by the library, but you can also provide your own.

Fade¶

This highlight fades a color over the entire placeholder in and out.

Placeholder Fade demo

Placeholder MaterialPlaceholder Foundation

import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.PlaceholderHighlight
import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.material.placeholder
import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.material.fade

Text(
    text = "Content to display after content has loaded",
    modifier = Modifier
        .padding(16.dp)
        .placeholder(
            visible = true,
            highlight = PlaceholderHighlight.fade(),
        )
)

import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.PlaceholderHighlight
import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.placeholder
import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.fade

Text(
    text = "Content to display after content has loaded",
    modifier = Modifier
        .padding(16.dp)
        .placeholder(
            visible = true,
            color = Color.Gray,
            // optional, defaults to RectangleShape
            shape = RoundedCornerShape(4.dp),
            highlight = PlaceholderHighlight.fade(
                highlightColor = Color.White,
            ),
        )
)

Shimmer¶

This displays a gradient shimmer effect which emanates from the top-start corner.

Placeholder Shimmer demo

Placeholder MaterialPlaceholder Foundation

import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.PlaceholderHighlight
import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.material.placeholder
import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.material.shimmer

Text(
    text = "Content to display after content has loaded",
    modifier = Modifier
        .padding(16.dp)
        .placeholder(
            visible = true,
            highlight = PlaceholderHighlight.shimmer(),
        )
)

import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.PlaceholderHighlight
import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.placeholder
import com.google.accompanist.placeholder.shimmer

Text(
    text = "Content to display after content has loaded",
    modifier = Modifier
        .padding(16.dp)
        .placeholder(
            visible = true,
            color = Color.Gray,
            // optional, defaults to RectangleShape
            shape = RoundedCornerShape(4.dp),
            highlight = PlaceholderHighlight.shimmer(
                highlightColor = Color.White,
            ),
        )
)

Usage¶

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    // If you're using Material, use accompanist-placeholder-material
    implementation "com.google.accompanist:accompanist-placeholder-material:<version>"

    // Otherwise use the foundation version
    implementation "com.google.accompanist:accompanist-placeholder:<version>"
}

Library Snapshots¶

Snapshots of the current development version of this library are available, which track the latest commit. See here for more information on how to use them.

Contributions¶

Please contribute! We will gladly review any pull requests. Make sure to read the Contributing page first though.

License¶

Copyright 2021 The Android Open Source Project

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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