Text rendering engine in ios7

steve.x.northover at oracle.com steve.x.northover at oracle.com
Thu Jul 4 14:20:18 PDT 2013


Text Kit is built on CoreText.  JavaFX on iOS uses CoreText so text will 
continue to work.  New features of Text Kit won't be available unless 
there is a port to Text Kit (and this might not make sense, needs 
investigation).

Steve

On 04/07/2013 4:53 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given that the text rendering engine will change in ios 7:
> http://typographica.org/on-typography/beyond-helvetica-the-real-story-behind-fonts-in-ios-7/
> (later
> in the article)
> How will that impact the porting of javafx apps to ios? Will it still be
> possible with the current state of things?
>
> Regards,
>
>



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