Episode 194: Subtext

This time, Tor, Romain, and Chet were joined by Siyamed Sinir and Sean McQuillan from the Android Text team to talk about, well, text. Which, it turns out, is a very deep, complicated, and constantly evolving technology. The conversation covered everything from the fundamentals of the text stack on Android to the capabilities and implementation of text in Jetpack Compose to internationalization to fonts to emojis to performance to.... you get the idea. There was a lot of stuff to talk about. And so much subtext. Romain, Chet, Sean, Tor, and Siyamed (using RTL support: Siyamed, Tor, Sean, Chet, and Romain) Links: Text In Compose  Compose Variable Fonts ComboBreaker ColrV1 Fonts i18n & Text in Android 13  Text is hard! Rendering & Editing   Compose Downloadable Fonts  Romain: @romainguy and [email protected] Tor: @tornorbye and [email protected] Chet: @chethaase and [email protected] Siyamed:@siyamed Sean: tech.lgbt/@objcode Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs