Episode 90: Spanspanspanspan

Android Developers Backstage

Episode | Podcast

Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 18:15:31 +0000

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f7l1v-xluQQ/WuyiqtBpWGI/AAAAAAAAFSE/FBQ2_dv8JOgvaPuk2zKjE-23Jl1sCTk7gCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180504_094717.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <img border="0" height="196" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f7l1v-xluQQ/WuyiqtBpWGI/AAAAAAAAFSE/FBQ2_dv8JOgvaPuk2zKjE-23Jl1sCTk7gCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20180504_094717.jpg" width="320" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Florina, Chet, and Clara<br /> (Chet is the one sporting the highly-collectible and terribly<br /> elegant Android Toolkitty team swag jacket)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> In this episode, Chet <strike>and Tor</strike> talk with Florina Muntenescu from Android developer relations and Clara Bayarri from the Android Toolkit team about text. The conversation spans spanning, spannables, spans, and of course spans, but also dives into some of the new text features in the P preview release, like pre-computed text measurement, magnifer, smarter Linkify, and baseline-alignment attributes.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;">Subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage" target="_blank">podcast feed</a> or download the <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/ADB%2090%20Spanspanspanspan.mp3" target="_blank">audio file</a> directly.</div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Links</b>:<br /> <a href="https://medium.com/google-developers/spantastic-text-styling-with-spans-17b0c16b4568"> Spantastic text styling</a><br /> <a href="https://medium.com/google-developers/underspanding-spans-1b91008b97e4"> Underspanding spans</a><br /> <a href="https://developer.android.com/preview/">Android P Developer Preview</a><br /> <a href="https://events.google.com/io/schedule/?section=may-9&amp;sid=532cc42d-df69-4ded-9766-2987ea46d2d7"> Best practices for text on Android</a><br /> <br /> <b>Florina</b>: <a href="https://twitter.com/FMuntenescu">@FMuntenescu</a><br /> <b>Tor</b>: <a href="http://google.com/+TorNorbye">google.com/+TorNorbye</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/tornorbye" target="_blank">@tornorbye</a><br /> <b>Chet</b>: <a href="http://google.com/+ChetHaase">google.com/+ChetHaase</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/chethaase" target="_blank">@chethaase</a><br /> <br /> <i>Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.</i><br /> <br /></div> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage/~4/DWIUl8e0AaU" width="1" />