CircleTextView

This is an Android library that will help users to have a circular TextView with an intial inside just like Gmail app with random colors that are genrated automatically. Please refer to included sample app for demo.

Download

1. First Add this to your root build.gradle file:

repositories {
  maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' } //TODO
}

2. Then to your project's build.gradle file:

dependencies {  
    .......  
    
    compile 'com.github.aamirwahid5:CircleTextView:1.0' //TODO  
       
}  

Or Maven: First this in your root build.gradle:

repositories>
		<repository>
		    <id>jitpack.io</id>
		    <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
		</repository>
	</repositories>

then add the dependency in your project's build.gradle:

<dependency>
	    <groupId>com.github.aamirwahid5</groupId>
	    <artifactId>CircleTextView</artifactId>
	    <version>1.0</version>
	</dependency>

HOW TO USE

This goes in your layout xml file with width and height as u want:

<project.aamir.sheikh.circletextview.CircleTextView
        android:id="@+id/ctv"
        android:layout_width="50dp"   
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:gravity="center" />

and then in your java file:

        CircleTextView  mCircleTextView = (CircleTextView) findViewById(R.id.ctv); //change with your id
        mCircleTextView.setCustomText(mArrayList.get(position)); //Supply your whole text here it will automatically generate the initial
        mCircleTextView.setSolidColor(position); //pass position if used inside RecyclerView otherwise you can keep blank this is used to save background color state
        mCircleTextView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
        mCircleTextView.setCustomTextSize(18); //change with your text size or if not used will take size automatically