Layouts in Android UI Design

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Layout Managers (or simply layouts) are said to be extensions of the ViewGroup
class. They are used to set the position of child Views within the UI we are
building. We can nest the layouts, and therefore we can create arbitrarily complex
UIs using a combination of layouts.

There is a number of layout classes in the Android SDK. They can be used,
modified or can create your own to make the UI for your Views, Fragments and
Activities. You can display your contents effectively by using the right
combination of layouts.

The most commonly used layout classes that are found in Android SDK are:

FrameLayout- It is the simplest of the Layout Managers that pins each child
view within its frame. By default the position is the top-left corner, though the
gravity attribute can be used to alter its locations. You can add multiple
children stacks each new child on top of the one before, with each new View
potentially obscuring the previous ones.
 LinearLayout- A LinearLayout aligns each of the child View in either a vertical
or a horizontal line. A vertical layout has a column of Views, whereas in a
horizontal layout there is a row of Views. It supports a weight attribute for
each child View that can control the relative size of each child View within the
available space.

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RelativeLayout- It is flexible than other native layouts as it lets us to define

the position of each child View relative to the other views and the dimensions
of the screen.
 GridLayout- It was introduced in Android 4.0 (API level 14), the Grid Layout
used a rectangular grid of infinitely thin lines to lay out Views in a series of
rows and columns. The Grid Layout is incredibly flexible and can be used to
greatly simplify layouts and reduce or eliminate the complex nesting often
required to construct UIs using the layouts described before.

Each of these layouts is designed to scale to suit the screen size of the host
device by avoiding the used of absolute co- ordinates of the positions or
predetermined pixel values. This makes the app suitable for the diverse set of
Android devices.

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