View Reduction
“So! Many! Views!” — that’s exactly what I felt when we started the process of optimizing Firefox for Android. Compound …
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Overdraw
A couple of months back Romain Guy had posted a blog on performance of an Android app. Of the many …
Nebula 7
I’ve been playing with Nexus 7 for few days now. I know it’s one of the strange devices with tvdpi …
Compound Drawables
Many a times we tend to add an image to a text for a Button. The pictorial representation of an …
Shaders
Lightweight themes are basically images aligned to the top-right corner of the desktop window. When we applied the same to …
Runtime Theme Change
It’s a known fact in Android that themes cannot be changed during runtime. If the new theme change has to …
Custom Fonts
A general myth in Android is that it has only one font, as opposed to iOS’s 50+ fonts. It’s not …
Reflected Image View
While implementing lightweight themes for mobile, a decision was made to use the same images as the desktop, as there …
Custom States
As a part of the ongoing work on private browsing mode, we had to come up with a way to …
Show Your Style
Firefox introduced Lightweight themes a.k.a Personas in version 3.6. This became available in built-in starting 4.0. The good news is …
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