This layout manager could represent Google Chips material design pattern

As an android developer i see that google isn't so polite to support all our wishes, and when i faced with such common task like create spannable list but with support of CRUD animations i decided to make such stuff and share it.

compile 'com.beloo.widget:ChipsLayoutManager:0.1.2'

Assuming you have installed jCenter provider:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

or just import ChipsLayoutManager module to your project.

Layout manager represents chips or spanned or "bubble" structure of list items and is a good replace for typical implementations of such issue based on spans in TextView or custom FlowLayouts.

• supports RecyclerView's features, such as default animations while CRUD items & custom ItemAnimators, ItemDecorators, scrolling etc. wrap_content of height is supported
• vertical scrolling is supported. Horizontal scrolling isn't supported. It is possible to disable vertical scrolling as well. Supported padding/margin, clipToPadding parameter of RecyclerView
• supports different height and width of items
• recycling items support (another advantage over TextView approach)
• items gravity inside row support. For all items or only for required ones
• LTR and RTL support
• activity orientation change support

###Layout Directions

Left to Right	Right to Left

ChipsLayoutManager chipsLayoutManager = ChipsLayoutManager.newBuilder()
        //set vertical gravity for all items in a row. Default = Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL
        .setChildGravity(Gravity.TOP)
        //whether RecyclerView can scroll
        .setScrollingEnabled(true)
        //set maximum views count in a particular row
        .setMaxViewsInRow(2)
        //set gravity resolver where you can determine gravity for item in position. This method have priority over previous one
        .setGravityResolver(new IChildGravityResolver() {
            @Override
            public int getItemGravity(int position) {
                return Gravity.CENTER;
            }
        })
        .build();
rv.setLayoutManager(chipsLayoutManager);

Device current direction have been chosen by default. You can manipulate with layout direction (LTR or RTL)
On Api >= 17:

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="match_parent"
       android:layoutDirection="rtl"
       />

or programmatically (on all supported Api:):

ViewCompat.setLayoutDirection(recyclerView, ViewCompat.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL);

For example look at sample application.

BETA is going. I respond to your founded issues. Just create a ticket if you found something goes wrong.

All pull requests are welcome. I've tried to make code clean & readable, so the next is up to you. I appreciate any help and contributors will be mentioned here.

• Cache of view positions is cleared on orientation change. But it wouldn't be so critical, because views are going to be properly repositioned when user will scroll to start again.

This issues are going to be fixed in next versions.

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