Make It Fit, how Android measures and draws views

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Shows how to implement reusable Android components: a font-aware TextView with attribute-based Typeface loading, caching via a HashMap, and a pie-chart View that animates by posting a Runnable and calling invalidate (or using the Choreographer). Covers exact code points: override onMeasure and call setMeasuredDimension, read attrs with obtainStyledAttributes and call TypedArray.recycle(), override onSizeChanged/onDraw, reuse Paints to avoid allocations, and detach to stop the animation. Demo compiles and renders in the IDE.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:51Custom components?
3. 18:58Simple Animated View
4. 23:16Simple TextView

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