This Android Studio plugin automatically generates drawable selectors from appropriately named Android resources.

How to install it:

• in Android Studio: go to Preferences→Plugins→Browse repositories and search for SelectorChapek

  or

• download it and install via Preferences→Plugins→Install plugin from disk

How to use it:

1) Right-click folder with your resources e.g 'drawable-xhdpi'

2) Select 'Generate Android Selectors'

3) All selectors automagically appear in the 'drawable' folder!

Naming convention:

In order of plugin to work, resources need to be appropriately named. The plugin supports png or nine-patch files with certain suffices anywhere in the file name. You can also combine any suffixes together.

Mapping

File name suffix	Drawable state
_normal	(default state)
_pressed	state_pressed
_focused	state_focused
_disabled	state_enabled (false)
_checked	state_checked
_selected	state_selected
_hovered	state_hovered
_checkable	state_checkable
_activated	state_activated
_windowfocused	state_window_focused

Wishlist

• UI which will tell you which selectors will be generated
• possibility to change naming mapping

Pull requests are welcomed!

Why 'Chapek'?

Karel Čapek was a famous Czech writer, inventor of the word 'robot'. The word comes from Czech word 'robota', which means 'hard manual labor'. As with Čapek's robots, this plugin will remove your unnecessary manual labor.

See our other Czech personalities who help with #AndroidDev.