In this episode, we talk to Alex Lockwood who created shapeshifter.design, while at Google. Shape Shifter is an amazing tool that can help developers create Animated Vector Drawables without losing all their hair. Think of shapeshifter as a developer-friendly, open source, After Effects alternative for Android developers.

Alex talks to us about how and why he created Shape Shifter, the different tools that have evolved out of its creation and just getting a good grasp of its working.

Show Notes

Abt Alex Lockwood

• Alex's blog - androiddesignpatterns.com
• class-handler-memory-leak.html">How to Leak a Context: Handlers & Inner Classes
• objects-across-config-changes.html">Handling configuration changes with Fragments

Shape Shifter

• shapeshifter.design
• to-icon-animation-techniques.html">Blog post on icon animations
• to-icon-animation-techniques.html">An Introduction to Icon Animation Techniques

SVGO

• SVGo - optimizer
• SVG-OMG - webapp that runs svgo on web by Jake Archibald

Shape Shifting & Icon animations

• Alex Lockwood Droidcon SF 2017 Talk - In-depth parth morphing w/Shape Shifter
• Building play to pause animation with ShapeShifter [slides]
• Animal morph animation
• Nick Butcher talk - Learn some new moves
• Needleman-Wunsch algorithm
• AVDO
• github issue: AVDO -> 🥑
• Lottie

Sponsors

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Contact

• @alexjlockwood [twitter.com]
• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker and +DonnFelker
• @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe