Rialto is a new Android text styling library based upon Annotation Spans. Rialto enables you to provide consistent text formatting throughout your app by using annotations in your string resources. Previously we have looked at how to use Rialto, some of the features added to V1.1.0, and I am extremely pleased to release Rialto 1.2.0…
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Rialto: V1.1.0
Rialto is a new Android text styling library based upon Annotation Spans. Rialto enables you to provide consistent text formatting throughout your app by using annotations in your string resources. Previously we have looked at how to use Rialto, and I am extremely please to release Rialto 1.1.0 which contains some (hopefully!) useful new features.
Rialto – Advanced Usage
A new Android text styling library based upon Annotation Spans. Rialto enables you to provide consistent text formatting throughout your app by using annotations in your string resources. In this article we’ll look a little deeper in to some of the more advanced aspects of using Rialto. Although even the advanced stuff isn’t particularly complex!
Rialto – Getting Started
I am extremely pleased to release Rialto: A new Android text styling library based upon Annotation Spans. Rialto enables you to provide consistent text formatting throughout your app by using annotations in your string resources. In this article we’ll look at how to get started using Rialto.
AnnotationSpans – Part 2
I recently read a blog post on the Android Developers blog by Florina Muntenescu from which I learned about a really interesting technique for applying spans to text. I was even more surprised to learn from Florina that the API in question has been there since API 1. As I was unaware of this incredibly…
AnnotationSpans – Part 1
I recently read a blog post on the Android Developers blog by Florina Muntenescu from which I learned about a really interesting technique for applying spans to text. I was even more surprised to learn from Florina that the API in question has been there since API 1. As I was unaware of this incredibly…
TextClassification – Part 3
In API 26 (Oreo) a new TextClassification system was introduced. This has been further refined in API 28 (Pie). In this short series we’ll take a look at what this is, how to use it, and how we can add custom behaviours to it.
TextClassification – Part 2
In API 26 (Oreo) a new TextClassification system was introduced. This has been further refined in API 28 (Pie). In this short series we’ll take a look at what this is, how to use it, and how we can add custom behaviours to it.
TextClassification – Part 1
In API 26 (Oreo) a new TextClassification system was introduced. This has been further refined in API 28 (Pie). In this short series we’ll take a look at what this is, how to use it, and how we can add custom behaviours to it.
Currency Curiosities
Formatting currency values can be tricky because to do it correctly requires knowledge of each individual currency and how it should be rendered. Fortunately the java.text package contains some classes which have that local knowledge which means that us developers do not need it, except in really rare circumstances. However, there are some subtleties to…