A New Window Into Pixel Pushing
summary
A free open source toolset called Window Android App plus a Window Android library captures the screen bitmap and Android assist view‑node tree (requires API 23+) to draw rulers, grids and measure distances, and to export an SVG view hierarchy for Figma/Sketch. It overlays any app via the voice interaction session, shows positional deltas in dips/percent, and works in demos, though metadata is limited (typeface/color often missing) and Android Q role APIs and touch heuristics are still being improved.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 0:46What is VQA?
- 1:55Maintaining Brand Identity.
- 3:47How do we implement brand identity?
- 7:23Single source of truth!
- 7:46Dependencies.
- 8:06One Way Conversation.
- 10:40VQA is tedious
- 12:55Rinse and repeat
- 13:25How can we improve prodativity??
- 14:25What does it do?
- 15:02Google Assistant
- 15:27How does it work?
- 18:29Canvas!
- 19:04Android Q!
- 19:49No Library Needed.
- 20:26How do I enable Window?
- 27:38What else?
- 29:17Why does Window exist?
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