Android Textual Layout
summary
Recent Android releases add concrete typography features: automatic hyphenation and whole‑paragraph optimization (TeX‑based) that reduce gaps on narrow screens while keeping overall layout cost about the same as Lollipop; a fontFeatureSettings attribute (CSS‑style) to toggle OpenType features like ligatures, proportional/oldstyle figures and letter‑spacing; Roboto 2 triples Unicode coverage and ships multiple weights/italics and open‑source build files; Noto CJK provides region variants plus a CFF renderer; color emoji follow OpenType 1.7 and a fast hasGlyph API exists; setTextLocale/LocaleSpan plus Compact Language Detector v2 improve script, line‑break and hyphenation choices; StaticLayout adds per‑line indents for circles/watch faces.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:24Agenda
- 1:15Challenges Opportunities
- 3:47Modern Display Technology
- 5:09Screen Resolution
- 5:50Material Design
- 7:14Roboto II
- 8:46Android Design
- 9:31Global Reach
- 10:56Other Languages
- 11:51NotoCJK
- 13:44Emoji
- 15:32Typography
- 17:05ligatures
- 18:17numbers
- 19:38letter spacing
- 20:36paragraph layout
- 23:32highquality layout
- 26:01line breaking
- 27:19locale
- 32:30questions
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