Don't Forget About the Layout
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Presentation given by Bartek Kozajda during meet.intive android in Szczecin. Constraint layout vs other Android layouts.
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- 1. Don’t forget about the layout. @BKozajda BARTOSZ KOZAJDA
- 4. Neversettle intive.com ConstraintLayout Timeline ConstraintLayout 1.0.0 alpha 05/2016 Google I/O 2016 ConstraintLayout 1.0.0 stable 02/2017 ConstraintLayout 1.0.1 03/2017 ConstraintLayout 1.0.2 03/2017 ConstraintLayout 1.1 beta 05/2017 ConstraintLayout 1.1 stable 04/2018 ConstraintLayout 2.0 ??/2018
- 5. Neversettle intive.com 5 Legit Android layouts :) _LinearLayout - simple cases _FrameLayout - single view _MotionLayout - animations _ConstraintLayout - all other cases
- 7. Neversettle intive.com 7 Let’s go back to the basics _How Android draws views? MEASURE LAYOUT DRAW
- 8. Neversettle intive.com Understanding the performance benefits of ConstraintLayout
- 9. Neversettle intive.com Understanding the performance benefits of ConstraintLayout Count Measure/Layout 89 Draw 59 Total 148
- 10. Neversettle intive.com Understanding the performance benefits of ConstraintLayout
- 11. Neversettle intive.com Understanding the performance benefits of ConstraintLayout Count Measure/Layout 20 Draw 13 Total 33 33 < 148
- 13. Neversettle intive.com Getting started with CL codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/constraint-layout
- 17. Neversettle intive.com Percents _View width and height: • layout_constraintWidth_percent • layout_constraintHeight_percent Source: medium.com/google-developers/introducing- constraint-layout-1-1-d07fc02406bc
- 18. Neversettle intive.com Guidelines _Guideline can be either horizontal or vertical _Positioning a Guideline is possible in three different ways: • fixed distance from the left or the top of a layout (layout_constraintGuide_begin) • fixed distance from the right or the bottom of a layout (layout_constraintGuide_end) • percentage of the width or the height of a layout (layout_constraintGuide_percent) 18 Source: riggaroo.co.za
- 20. Neversettle intive.com Barriers _Creates a virtual guideline based on the most extreme widget on the specified side. 20 Source: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ytZteMo4ETk
- 21. Neversettle intive.com Groups _Controls the visibility of a set of referenced widgets _Useful when you have several elements that are shown or displayed together. 21
- 22. Neversettle intive.com Chains _Chain is a group of views that are linked to each other with bi-directional position constraints. _Chain allows to distribute a group of views horizontally or vertically with the four different styles 22 Source: riggaroo.co.za
- 23. Neversettle intive.com Chains 1. Spread 2. Spread inside 3. Weighted 4. Packed 23 Source: developer.android.com/ training/constraint-layout/
- 24. Neversettle intive.com Circular positioning _Can constrain a widget center relative to another widget center, at an angle and a distance _The following attributes can be used: • layout_constraintCircle : references another widget ID • layout_constraintCircleRadius : the distance to the other widget center • layout_constraintCircleAngle : which angle the widget should be at Source: riggaroo.co.za
- 27. Neversettle intive.com Layout optimizations _ layout_optimizationLevel tag, which configures the optimization level. It can be set to the following: • Barriers • Direct • Standard - default (Barriers and Direct) • Dimensions - experimental • Chains - experimental • None 27
- 29. Neversettle intive.com Helpers _Keep reference to existing views _Flat hierarchy _View can be referenced by multiple helpers _New helpers in CL 2.0: • Linear • Flow • Layers • Circular Reveal
- 36. Neversettle intive.com MotionLayout _Subclass of ConstraintLayout _MotionLayout Editor 36 Source: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ytZteMo4ETk
- 38. Neversettle intive.com Pitfalls _LayoutEditor _Generated XML code _Layout optimizer _‘Convert to ConstraintLayout’ tool _Backward compatibility _AndroidX compatibility issues