Typesetting: designing and building beautiful text layouts

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Concrete decisions and APIs rather than design platitudes: Android P adds firstBaselineToTopHeight and baseline-aware spacing, explicit lineHeight values (eg. 24sp → 32dp) and a 4dp baseline grid, AutoSize with autoSizePresetSizes, breakStrategy and hyphenation controls, and downloadable fonts that can be preloaded via Play services or bundled to avoid runtime jank. Variable fonts shrink APK weight, precomputed text shifts expensive measurement off the UI thread and reliably improves layout performance, spans distinguish appearance vs metric effects, and long texts benefit from splitting into RecyclerView pages.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:24Color
3. 7:51Size & Scale Autosize
4. 11:40Line Breaking
5. 12:08Line Spacing
6. 29:00Style Default Style
7. 43:03Long text

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