Romain Guy

Previously: Engineering Director, Android Toolkit team at Google. on Bluesky

[Romain Guy @romainguy]

@yiningkarlli Prob not this particular example but I'm extremely happy this exists. It enables a lot of interesting and fun user experiences.

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@yiningkarlli It gets a lot easier when it can be done from a parametric equation (circle, or the rope I assume).

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@yiningkarlli It absolutely does but the difficulty is going from the shape to the rectangle spans used to flow the text. In past implementation of Knuth I saw for the web, folks would just do it by hand, or it wouldn't work if text had different font heights in the same line.

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Osaka Night

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Interface — Osaka, Japan

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@hbarra @dps @alcor @dreamer Congrats!

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@JorgeCastilloPr What does it have to do with AI??

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Parting — Kyoto, Japan
https://t.co/ErpuKgSeqw

[Android Developers @AndroidDev]

R8 takes your code to the finish line 🏁

In the latest episode of Android Developers Backstage, we cover:
→ R8 vs D8
→ Avoiding the "Big 3" build mistakes
→ Resource shrinking in AGP 9.0

https://t.co/mbvu3fZc0v

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Follow the Sign
https://t.co/x81R8qPhAQ

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Grand Canyon Sunset
https://t.co/E1nPAT9EQh

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Alone in Tokyo X
https://t.co/fWdDg6GNAZ

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@ColtonIdle @theapache64 It's a mix of the pipeline and the GPU avoiding redundant work, but also tiler based architecture making this very fast (in the case we care about here). So it's software and hardware being smart, and hardware being fast.

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@ColtonIdle @theapache64 They're not really an issue on modern hardware. But they're usually an indicator of other wasteful things happening which may impact memory, layout, etc. A benchmark like this isn't a great way to measure their impact since it's will depend on what causes them

[Android Developers @AndroidDev]

We’ve reduced Android Runtime compile times by 18% without sacrificing code quality → https://t.co/QMWLuBkKMr

These improvements mean smoother app performance and better battery life for your users, available now for Android 12+ via mainline updates.

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@Mahesh_Manseta @JorgeCastilloPr There were internal code names for A and B but they were robot names, not desserts/pastries/sweets. Petit Four was the first public code name, followed by Cupcake.

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@JorgeCastilloPr It would be doable but pretty painful if you stick to basic APIs (paths and mesh gradients). But with custom shaders…

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@bitsycore Yes Region can work as well, but in this case there's a multiplaform API provided by Compoae.

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New blog post on how to detect tap on arbitrary shapes with Jetpack Compose, and in general how to easily check if a given set of coordinates is contained inside a path.

https://t.co/wlCea4nV7E