039: Talking TextView with Elliott Chenger

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]