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Laying Out UI Elements in Compose
In the previous chapters, you learned how to build simple UIs. Although they consisted of just a few UI elements, they needed to arrange their buttons, text fields, and sliders in a particular order, direction, or hierarchy. Layouts position and size their content in a way specific to this layout, such as horizontally (Row()) or vertically (Column()). This chapter explores layouts in greater detail.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Using predefined layouts
- Understanding the single measure pass
- Creating custom layouts
We will start by exploring the predefined layouts of Row(), Column(), and Box(). You will learn how to combine them to create beautiful UIs. Next, I’ll introduce you to ...
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