Lisa Wray is a mobile developer, speaker, and advocate specializing in user interfaces. She currently works at Facebook, and previously worked at Google, the New York Times, and Genius. She has a B.S. from M.I.T. in music and computer science, and is a Google Developer Expert for Android. She currently lives in Seattle.
Lisa tweets at @lisawrayz.
Talks I've Given
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The Light Way
Featuring Lisa Wray
What if an app could be performant by being simple? What if an app could work “at scale” for a billion users using only standard Android paradigms?
Facebook supports some of the biggest, most complex apps in the world. But supporting everyone also means support for developing countries,...
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Keynote: Tips for Library Development from a Startup Developer
Featuring Lisa Wray
Are you ready to take a long shot and invest… in your code? As a veteran of both Google and two startups and counting, Lisa will share with you how to chase the dream of open source, fame, and fortune, no matter the size of your company.
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Radical RecyclerView
Featuring Lisa Wray
This talk will cover how to madly customize (almost) everything in a RecyclerView. Today's apps aren't simple lists and grids. They have complex, hierarchical content and move, interact, and flow with the user and their device. The layout-dp folder is dead; long live the custom adapter!...
android mobile droidcon droidconuk recyclerview -
Beautiful Typography on Android
Featuring Lisa Wray
Material design's "paper" stresses the beautiful typography of print journalism – but how? This talk will work directly through translating paper designs to Android's TextView, starting with styles, Spans, and Typefaces and finally diving deep into FontMetrics and custom text...
android typography textview fontmetrics font text-drawing typefaces spans internationalization bidirectional-text