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May 9, 2016 41 min

039: Talking TextView with Elliott Chenger

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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. 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]

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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. Show Notes: http://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/39/ ## Sponsor * [The Nerdery](http://nrdryjobs.com/fragmented) [nrdryjobs.com/fragmented]

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