UI Layout
Topics
- What is Layout & How to declare Layout ?
- Layout File structure and location
- Attributes
- ID
- Layout parameters
- Types of Layout
- LinearLayout
- RelativeLayout
- TableLayout
- FrameLayout
- Tab layout
What is a Layout & How to declare a Layout?
What is a Layout?
- It defines the layout structure for the user interface in an Activity
- It holds all the visual elements that appear to the user
How to declare a Layout?
Two Options
- Option #1: Declare layout and its visual elements in XML (most common and preferred)
- Option #2: Instantiate a layout and its visual elements at runtime (programmatically in Java code)