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)

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PhotoView

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

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TextDrawable		PhotoView
	Project
2	Mentions	1
3,163	Stars	18,684
-	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years 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.

Total newcomer - can some help me use this script to generate a simple icon for gmail/google?
1 project | /r/github | 21 Jan 2023

This program seems to be able to generate this: https://github.com/amulyakhare/TextDrawable
How to use ShapeableImageView in Android
1 project | /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.

Is there a way of controlling an image view's zoom and scroll from another image view so both image views response is exactly the same?
1 project | /r/androiddev | 4 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

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

CircleImageView - A circular ImageView for Android

TouchImageView - Adds touch functionality to Android ImageView.

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.

android-shape-imageview - Custom shaped android imageview components

ImageViewZoom - Android ImageView widget with zoom and pan capabilities

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

SelectableRoundedImageView - Android ImageView that supports different radii on each corner.

android-crop - Android library project for cropping images

avatar-android - Rounded and Squared Avatar for Android Applications

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