Mastering Layouts in Android

Creating complex layouts in Android has notoriously been a difficult task. Catering for all different screen sizes & ensuring that your layouts adapt properly can be quite difficult. In this talk, you will learn how to create layouts easily in Android by using the new ConstraintLayout.

Using Androids built-in layout editor prior to ConstraintLayout resulted in many developers switching to creating their layouts programmatically in XML. Android developers generally try avoid the layout editor due to the past results they’ve experienced. Since the release of ConstraintLayout, the Android Layout editor has been completely rebuilt to be more user friendly.

In this talk, Rebecca will go into detail around some of the great features of the new layout editor and how you can leverage ConstraintLayout to build great, responsive Android layouts. Features like guidelines, barriers, chains will be covered, as well as creating easy animations with ConstraintLayout.