Scaloid is a Scala library designed to make Android app development in Scala more concise, idiomatic, and less verbose compared to using the standard Android APIs. It provides wrappers, syntactic sugar, and implicit conversions so that interacting with Android UI elements, layouts, intents, and other Android primitives feels more natural to Scala developers. For example, it offers DSL-style helpers for defining views and layouts with less boilerplate, implicit conversions to help with event listeners, and utility methods to simplify common tasks. Scaloid aims to capture the expressiveness of Scala—higher-order methods, implicit conversions, extension methods—to let Android development be more functional and succinct. It lowers friction for Scala developers targeting Android, making UI code more compact and composable while still maintaining access to full Android platform capabilities.
Features
- Simplified UI/widget creation: wrappers / helper methods that make constructing Android views, layouts etc more fluent in Scala.
- Reduced boilerplate in things like event listeners, view binding, context handling etc via Scala abstractions.
- Scala syntax leveraged: implicits, functional style to help glue together Android APIs more succinctly.
- Support for both Maven and sbt / Gradle builds so you can integrate into standard Android build workflows.
- Scope of helpers includes common Android patterns: toasts, dialogs, layout inflation, activity context etc.
- Designed for maintainability: clearer code, more expressive, easier to understand Android lifecycle / view-hierarchies when using Scala.
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