Loving Lean Layouts

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Argues that layout complexity causes measurable jank and shows concrete fixes: uses hierarchy viewer plus systrace and dumpsys frame stats to find costly measure/layout passes, demoing a deliberately awful sample that scrolls poorly. Recommends lint checks, replacing nested weights, using compound drawables and Spans or plain View/Space instead of extra view groups, avoiding RelativeLayout as root, and—if needed—writing a custom ViewGroup to regain control. Practical, tool-driven, and example-rich.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:20Loving Lean Layouts
3. 2:01Lean Layouts Matter
4. 5:12Relative Layout
5. 9:40Platform Layouts
6. 11:06Lists
7. 12:58The Hierarchy Viewer
8. 14:45Hierarchy Viewer
9. 15:41View Hierarchy
10. 19:17Android Studio
11. 23:30Compound Drawables
12. 24:32Spano Bowls
13. 30:00Linear Layout
14. 31:52Never Use Relative Layout
15. 32:29Custom View Group
16. 34:52Good Practices

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