LineCartesianLayer

Overview

Use LineCartesianLayer to create line charts. Each line is associated with a LineCartesianLayer.Line. The LineCartesianLayer.Lines are provided by a LineCartesianLayer.LineProvider. A base implementation of this interface can be instantiated via LineCartesianLayer.LineProvider.series. You can customize the lines’ fills, backgrounds, shapes, and other properties. You can also add data labels and points.

Line strokes are customized via LineCartesianLayer.LineStroke, which has two implementations:

• LineCartesianLayer.LineStroke.Continuous

• LineCartesianLayer.LineStroke.Dashed

Line fills are customized via LineCartesianLayer.LineFill, which has two factory functions:

• LineCartesianLayer.LineFill.single

• LineCartesianLayer.LineFill.double

Area fills, which are optional, are customized via LineCartesianLayer.AreaFill. This has similar factory functions to LineCartesianLayer.LineFill:

• LineCartesianLayer.AreaFill.single

• LineCartesianLayer.AreaFill.double

These cover most use cases. You can use both solid colors and ShaderProviders, and you can apply split styling—enabling you to create a line that’s green for positive values and red for negative values, for instance. You can, however, also create your own LineCartesianLayer.LineFill and LineCartesianLayer.AreaFill implementations.

To add points, use LineCartesianLayer.PointProvider. LineCartesianLayer.PointProvider.single instantiates a base implementation that adds a point for each entry and uses a shared point style. Once again, custom implementations can be created. A common use case for this is styling points individually based on their y-values.

To create a LineCartesianLayer, use the XML attributes:

<style name="ChartStyle">
    <item name="layers">line</item>
    <!-- ... -->
</style>

<com.patrykandpatrick.vico.views.cartesian.CartesianChartView
    app:chartStyle="@style/ChartStyle"
    <!-- ... --> />

Alternatively, use the LineCartesianLayer constructors:

cartesianChartView.chart = CartesianChart(LineCartesianLayer(/* ... */), /* ... */)

Transaction.lineSeries

LineCartesianLayers use LineCartesianLayerModels. When using a CartesianChartModelProducer, add LineCartesianLayerModels via lineSeries:

cartesianChartModelProducer.runTransaction {
    lineSeries {
        series(1, 8, 3, 7)
        series(y = listOf(6, 1, 9, 3))
        series(x = listOf(1, 2, 3, 4), y = listOf(2, 5, 3, 4))
    }
    // ...
}

Each series invocation adds a series to the LineCartesianLayerModel. Above, three series are added. series has three overloads (each of which accepts all Number subtypes):

• a vararg overload that takes y-values and uses their indices as the x-values

• an overload that takes a Collection of y-values and uses their indices as the x-values

• an overload that takes a Collection of x-values and a Collection of y-values of the same size

Manual LineCartesianLayerModel creation

When creating a CartesianChartModel directly, you can add a LineCartesianLayerModel by using build. This function gives you access to the same DSL that lineSeries does.

CartesianChartModel(
    LineCartesianLayerModel.build {
        series(1, 8, 3, 7)
        series(y = listOf(6, 1, 9, 3))
        series(x = listOf(1, 2, 3, 4), y = listOf(2, 5, 3, 4))
    },
    // ...
)

Sample charts

• “Basic line chart”

• “Basic combo chart”

• “AI test scores”

• “Electric-car sales (Norway)”