How to Add Graphs in Android

GraphView is a library for Android to programmatically create flexible and nice-looking diagrams. It is easy to understand, integrate, and customize.

Recently we’ve seen some View article like Increment ProductView, OverlayVeiw, Image SlideView, Discreate ScrollView, SwipeView and many more you can get. But today i am going to share a Graph Library for creating zoomable and scrollable line and bar graphs.

Supported graph types:

• Line Graphs.
• Bar Graphs.
• Point Graphs.
• Or, implement your own custom types.

Key Features

• Different plotting types: Line Charts, Bar Charts, and Point Charts can be plotted together as a combination.
• Draw multiple series of data: Let the diagram show more than one series in a graph. You can set a color and a description for every series.
• Realtime / Live Chart: Append new data live or reset the whole data.
• Secondary Scale.
• Tap Listener: Handle tap events on specific data points.
• Show legend: A legend can be displayed inline the chart. You can set the width and the vertical alignment (top, middle, bottom).
• Custom label formatter: The labels for the x- and y-axis are generated automatically. But you can set your own labels, Strings are possible.
• Handle incomplete data: It’s possible to give the data in a different frequency.
• Viewport: You can limit the viewport so that only a part of the data will be displayed.
• Scrolling and Scaling/Zooming: You can scroll with a finger touch move gesture. With a two-fingers touch scale gesture (multi-touch), the viewport can be changed.
• XML Integration.
• Optional Axis Titles: Set vertical and horizontal axis titles.
• Many Styles: Change the color and thickness, label font size/color and more.
• Very customizable: There are many hooks to use in order to do custom rendering or changing the paint objects.

Implementation of GraphView

Add gradle dependency:

compile 'com.jjoe64:graphview:4.2.1'

Add view to layout:

<com.jjoe64.graphview.GraphView
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="200dip"
 android:id="@+id/graph" />

Add some data:

GraphView graph = (GraphView) findViewById(R.id.graph);
LineGraphSeries<DataPoint> series = new LineGraphSeries<DataPoint>(new DataPoint[] {
 new DataPoint(0, 1),
 new DataPoint(1, 5),
 new DataPoint(2, 3),
 new DataPoint(3, 2),
 new DataPoint(4, 6)
});
graph.addSeries(series);

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