TextDrawable vs PhotoView

TextDrawable

This light-weight library provides images with letter/text like the Gmail app. It extends the Drawable class thus can be used with existing/custom/network ImageView classes. Also included is a fluent interface for creating drawables and a customizable ColorGenerator. (by amulyakhare)

#ImageView Widget

Source Code

PhotoView

Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures. (by chrisbanes)

#ImageView Widget

Source Code

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TextDrawable		PhotoView
	Project
1	Mentions	0
3,158	Stars	18,222
-	Growth	0.4%
0.0	Activity	0.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Java	Language	Java
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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TextDrawable

Posts with mentions or reviews of TextDrawable. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

How to use ShapeableImageView in Android
1 project | reddit.com/r/androiddev | 18 May 2021

PhotoView

Posts with mentions or reviews of PhotoView. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning PhotoView yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing TextDrawable and PhotoView you can also consider the following projects:

subsampling-scale-image-view - Android library (AAR). Highly configurable, easily extendable deep zoom view for displaying huge images without loss of detail. Perfect for photo galleries, maps, building plans etc.

TouchImageView - Adds touch functionality to Android ImageView.

ImageViewZoom - Android ImageView widget with zoom and pan capabilities

CircleImageView - A circular ImageView for Android

android-gpuimage - Android filters based on OpenGL (idea from GPUImage for iOS)

android-crop - Android library project for cropping images

gif-movie-view - Android View widget for displaying GIF animations.

android-shape-imageview - Custom shaped android imageview components

GestureViews - ImageView and FrameLayout with gestures control and position animation

CircularImageView - Custom view for circular images in Android while maintaining the best draw performance

PhotoView vs subsampling-scale-image-view

PhotoView vs TouchImageView

PhotoView vs ImageViewZoom