In this episode we chat with our friend an all round amazing AndroidDev Elliott Chenger. Elliot does Android development for Under Armour and knows a thing or two about TextViews. We talk TextViews, font rendering complications in Android, performance optimizations, localization (vs internationalization), ECDC (it’s a thing!) and wind the discussion off with some design software tools out there.

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Show Notes

• Under Armour : Health box [underarmour.com]
• Droidcon NYC 2015 – TextView how to turn design into reality for multiple languages [youtube.com]
• Android’s Font Renderer : Efficient text rendering with OpenGL ES Romain Guy [medium.com]
• DÖnn Fëlker
• TextView packages : Slide from Elliott’s talk [speakerdeck.com]
• Static Layout [developer.android.com]
• Boring Layout [developer.android.com]

Performance

• Traceview in Android Studio [tools.android.com]
• Profile GPU rendering
• Static Layout : for text that will not be edited after it is laid out
• Dynamic Layout : text layout that updates itself as the text is edited
• Improving comment rendering on Android [instagram-engineering.tumblr.com]
• Sample implementation of technique Instagram describes [stackoverflow.com]
• Simple trick explaining TextView wrap_content vs fixed height
• Energy glitches with Apple music app
• Google Localization Checklist [developer.android.com]

Design tools

• Zeplin
• Red Pen
• Sketch 3 For Android Developers (Big Android BBQ 2015) [youtube.com]
• Sketch app

Sponsor

• The Nerdery [nrdryjobs.com/fragmented]

Contact

• @Echenger [twitter.com]
• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker [twitter.com]
• @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik look at the Android N developer preview. They highlight the biggest changes that you as an Android Developer should keep an eye out for. There are tonne of features in N, so listen to this episode to get the highlights.

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Show Notes

• First preview of Android N: Developer API & Tools [android-developers.blogspot.com]
• Instruction for setting up your dev environment for the N preview (~=> Lambda support) [developer.android.com]
• Java 8 Language features [developer.android.com]
• ADB episode : 45 State of the Art
• Lambdas do not retain enclosing reference (unless really needed)
  • commit note on Jack toolchain [android.googlesource.com]
  • JacklrBuilder source createMethodInfoforLambda [android.googlesource.com]
  • RxJava Android Samples using lambdas [github.com]
  • javap – The Java class file Disassembler [docs.oracle.com]
• Issue tracking Annotation processing options in Jack [code.google.com]
• Other Java 8 language features for N [developer.android.com]
• Android MultiWindow features [developer.android.com]
• GCM Network Manager a.k.a Job Scheduler [developers.google.com]
• Android Notification styles [developer.android.com]

Resources

• What’s new in Android N: Ian Lake + Joanna smith [youtube.com]
• 5 tips for preparing for multi window in Android N: Ian Lake [medium.com]
• DroidCon SF keynote: Chet and Romain [youtube.com]
• Random musing on the N developer preview [commonsware.com]

Sponsor

• Hired – special offer: double your accepting bonus $2000

Contact

• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker [twitter.com]
• @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]