Fonts, Emoji and Text Using Support Libraries
summary
Concrete, actionable takeaways: Support Library v26+ plus Android Studio 3.0 implements fonts in XML so one line in the app theme applies a custom font app‑wide; Downloadable Fonts use Google Play services (11+) to shrink APKs, can prefetch via manifest but may throw ResourcesNotFound before download and require async handlers or blocking fetch for custom views; EmojiCompat can preload via the font provider or bundle a ~7MB font into the APK; TextView autosizing uses binary search and uniform sizing and needs known bounds to behave predictably.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:59Support Library v26+
- 4:09Why?
- 6:56Applying Lato
- 8:39What? How?
- 10:23Programmatically using Support Library
- 11:59Using Android Studio & Fonts in XML (recommended)
- 16:48Gotchas
- 22:42Library Components
- 23:09Downloadable Fonts Config
- 24:13Preloading for EmojiCompat
- 25:35Bundled Fonts Config
- 28:00Using EmojiCompat with Custom Widgets
- 31:51Using XML
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