pext is a text editor with Pastebin integration. It is meant to simplifly sharing code snippets and other text-based items on the go. It allows a user to login to Pastebin, submit text to Pastebin, and see a list of their own pastes and trending pastes.
While you don't NEED a Pastebin account to use this app, most features won't work unless you login. Without logging in, you can still submit new pastes and see the list of trending pastes. When logged in, you can see all of your own pastes and have many more options when submitting a paste.
When submitting to Pastebin, the user is given several options: Paste title, Paste privacy, Paste expiration, and Paste syntax highlighting.
The Paste does not require a title, and will default to Untitled if none is provided.
Privacy options are: Public, Unlisted, and Private (if logged in). Public includes your Paste in the Pastebin index, Unlisted does not. Private means only you can see it, which is why you must be logged in to select this option.
Expiration works much as you might expect. When the amount of time you specify is up, the Paste expires and is deleted from Pastebin.
I have not included all options for syntax highlighting on Pastebin in the app, as many options seemed like a little too much (and made finding your preferred syntax quite difficult). This is only seen when visiting the Pastebin URL. I haven't included syntax highlighting for the editor...yet ;)
Some features will not work unless you're logged in to Pastebin, such as: viewing "My Pastes", the clipboard history, and pasting private pastes.
The editor contains several features. Custom cut/copy/paste code - usable via the app bar icons - makes some of these features quicker for the user. If your screen is large enough there will be additional icons in the app bar, otherwise you will find them in the overflow menu (vertical dots). These icons/options will allow you to see a history of your clipboard (if you've logged in to Pastebin), send the body of the editor to Pastebin, or clear the editor.
There are currently 8 settings available to the user:
- Editor settings
- Show line numbers in editor (switchable, shows line numbers on left side of editor)
- Line wrap in editor (switchable, turns soft wrap on/off)
- Fling to scroll in editor (switchable, turning off means you can't do a tradional "fling" gesture inside the editor)
- Text size (drop-down, allows user to set font size 2-20 in multiples of 2)
- Pastebin settings
- Default privacy (drop-down, sets default setting for privacy when pasting)
- Default expiration (drop-down, sets default setting for expiration time when posting)
- Default syntax (drop-down, sets default setting for syntax highlighting of your text on Pastebin)
- Own pastes result limit (drop-down, sets number of your own pastes to retrieve when getting the list, many options ranging from 5-1000)
Settings will be saved to your device's Shared Preferences AND to Firebase (if you're logged in). The app loads shared preferences initially, and only loads from Firebase when you login.
- Clone this repo to your local machine
- Open in Android Studio 3.0
- Run in emulator or on your connected Android device
- Logged in text not updating on main activity when first logging in
- Loading indicators
- Color options for editor
- Ability to delete user's own pastes
- Dialog asking to start intent to share paste URL after submitting paste successfully
- Firebase fine-tuning concerning number of items in clipboard history
- General styling and UI improvements. IE: better colors and positioning of items
- A few things the Pastebin API is capable of that I didn't implement, like getting a paste by it's key
- A brackets button for easier insertion of certain common characters
- Save/load files from device. This may never actually happen.
- Some loading indicators
- Syntax highlighting (https://github.com/nakshay/TextHighlighter ?)
- ACRA (https://github.com/ACRA/acra)
- Clipboard history also saves to shared preferences
- Ability to submit pastes anonymously while logged in
- History of pastes submitted while not logged in/anonymously
Occasionally the login popup will cause the app to crash when you click login. The fragment just can't getActivity occasionally. I have no idea why.
The "Welcome back," and "You are not logged in" texts don't always update appropriately. This will be fixed in future updates.
If you have any issues or questions (or even suggestions!), email me at the address listed above, or raise an issue here
xgouchet for making TED. I borrowed his AdvancedEditText view, which saved me a ton of time (and looks great!).
smart-fun for XmlToJson. This tool was indespensible for my API calls, and their help in solving some API call issues saved the project.
My instructor at Epicodus, Perry Eising for being incredibly helpful and understanding along the way.
And the Pastebin admin for..Pastebin, and whitelisting my IP so I could do testing!
Android Studio, Java, XML, JSON
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2017 - Dallas Slaughter
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