Custom Views - The Definitive Guide

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Covers how to build custom Android Views, explaining when and why to create them and which Android APIs to use (View, Canvas, Drawable, onMeasure/onLayout/onDraw). Describes practical techniques for custom drawing, handling touch events, performance optimizations and reuse through attributes and custom components.

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" chapters (7)

1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:52What is a Custom View
3. 8:05Custom View lifecycle
4. 12:52Building Custom View from scratch
5. 17:36Saving Custom View state
6. 21:41Layout updates
7. 24:51Documentation and resources

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