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…
Category: Spans
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…
The Trouble With ClickableSpan
Regular readers of Styling Android will know that I like Spans. A lot. They are an incredibly versatile way of formatting text. However, there is one type of Span which can be problematic: ClickableSpan. The problem isn’t so much with ClickableSpan itself, which does exactly what it is designed to do, but the need to…
Superscript
Although the number of typos which appear in my blog posts may suggest otherwise, I am quite keen on good grammar. One specific area of this, which is nice to get right, is the display of ordinal numbers in their abbreviated form. In plain English, this means that when we shorten the word ‘first’ to…
Custom Colour Spans
Regular readers of Styling Android should know that I’m a huge fan of Spans and believe that a good understanding of Spans is essential in order to get the best out of TextView. That said sometimes just doing simple things, such as simply changing the text colour, can seem a little awkward. In this article…
App UI / UX – Part 2
In the previous article we began improving the UI of the app we developed as part of the Bluetooth LE series. We updated the layout to something slightly more interesting, but there is still more work to do. In this article we’ll look at how to use custom typefaces within our app.