[TIMOB-20186] Android (Parity): Support Blur View (aka UIVisualEffectView in iOS)

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	New Feature
Priority	Medium
Status	Open
Resolution	Unresolved
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	Android
Labels	Android, Parity
Reporter	Ashraf Abu
Assignee	Unknown
Created	2016-01-04T01:59:11.000+0000
Updated	2018-03-28T09:50:08.000+0000

Description

Providing parity to TIMOB-20176 to allow Blur functionality in Android.

Comments

Muhammad Sabir 2018-03-28

Any plans to add this in near future?
Michael Gangolf 2018-03-28

In case you want to use it today: there is an external module: https://github.com/benbahrenburg/Ti.BlurView and an Hyperloop example: https://github.com/appcelerator/hyperloop-examples/blob/master/app/controllers/android/blur.js

Hans Knöchel 2018-03-28

Thanks [~michael], thats correct! You could eventually also create a lightweight CommonJS module that exports a createBlurView function and even use it in Alloy then (PoC):

   <BlurView module="blurView></BlurView>

With a "blurView.js" in app/lib/:

   exports.createBlurView = function(arguments) }
     if (OS_IOS) {
       return Ti.UI.iOS.createBlurView(arguments);
     } else if (OS_ANDROID) {
       // Handle blurring via Hyperloop on Android
     } else if (OS_WINDOWS {
       // Handle blurring via Hyperloop on Windows
     } else {
       Ti.API.error('Unhandled platform implementation of the BlurView!');
     }
   };

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