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Flat as a pancake

Is your app very slow in loading new pages with lots of views in it? Is your scrolling perf not great… well… did you try flattening your view hierarchy? And what about not using View at all? Are you brave enough? Do you simply like pancakes? Come and discover what that actually means!

Let’s Sprinkle some #PerfMatters on your ViewGroups

Framework classes like RelativeLayout are extremely powerful but their first goal is to be versatile.This comes with significant performances costs that can prevent your app from being fast and smooth. This is especially important in constrained areas like list scrolling. The situation is not hopeless though, let’s see how we can remedy this by writing […]

#UXMatters

Do you know what it takes to have a good mobile User eXperience? Are you adding the features to make your Android application taste like more. Is your design good enough? Wiebe Elsinga will share is experience on what good and bad UX is, hoping to show you how to become a better developer and/or […]

Hinting around: text demystified

What is text? The answer of those who know, and like 90s music, is most likely “baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more”. It is often said that text is the most difficult part of a graphics toolkit and that is for good reasons. In this talk we’re going to give you the […]