Telegram Keyboard Builder

This is a collection of builders that make creating inline and reply keyboards in Telegram Bots much easier.

Dependencies

This library requires rubenlagus/TelegramBots on GitHub.

Usage

First, it is recommended that you static import these static functions, to reduce boilerplate code.

Builders

Inline Keyboard

Start with KeyboardBuilder.inline() to create a builder. The builder has multiple methods for buttons, such as buttonUrl for a link button. Each call to a button method creates a new button of that type in the row. The row method starts a new row. Remember to finish with build.

Example

KeyboardBuilder
    .inline()
    .button("hello", "world")
    .row()
    .buttonUrl("Visit", "example.com")
    .build();

Reply Keyboard

Start with KeyboardBuilder.reply() to create a builder. Each call to the button method creates a new button in the row. The row method starts a new row. Remember to finish with build.

Example

KeyboardBuilder
    .reply()
    .button("yes")
    .row()
    .button("no")
    .build();

Functions

For simple keyboards, you can also use the of-methods to quickly create keyboards without use of a builder.

Inline Keyboard

Start by statically importing the button method. This method creates an inline button with a callback query. The ofInline method receives a varargs list of buttons for the keyboard, optionally with the number of buttons per row. The default is 2.

Example

KeyboardBuilder.ofInline(2,
    button("hello", "world"),
    button("foo", "bar")
);

Reply Keyboard

The ofInline method receives a varargs list of strings, each of which creates a button for the keyboard, optionally with the number of buttons per row. The default is 2.

Example

KeyboardBuilder.ofReply(2, "yes", "no");