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Episode 192: The Path Forward

Android Developers Backstage

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Android X and Android Rendering of Vectors and Text

The Android path API in general, where you send all this information and basically we just send it down to the native level. We have no idea the Java and Kotlin level of Android X and Android what's in a path either because it just lives inside the Skia rendering engine. But occasionally there's a use case that comes up where you really want to know what that object is. And that use case is morphing. AVD has that feature, right? You can do morphing. But it has a pretty big limitation. The source and the destination have to have the same number of curves. Like I said, you can spend the whole career working on this kind of stuff.

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