What are the differences between LinearLayout RelativeLayout and AbsoluteLayout

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I am confused about the difference between LinearLayout  RelativeLayout  and AbsoluteLayout   Could someone please tell me the exact differences between them

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LinearLayout - In LinearLayout  views are organized either in vertical or horizontal orientation   RelativeLayout - RelativeLayout is way more complex than LinearLayout  hence provides much more functionalities  Views are placed  as the name suggests  relative to each other     FrameLayout - It behaves as a single object and its child views are overlapped over each other  FrameLayout takes the size of as per the biggest child element   Coordinator Layout - This is the most powerful ViewGroup introduced in Android support library  It behaves as FrameLayout and has a lot of functionalities to coordinate amongst its child views  for example  floating button and snackbar  Toolbar with scrollable view

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Definitions   Frame Layout  This is designed to block out an area on the screen to display a single item  Linear Layout  A layout that arranges its children in a single column or a single row  Relative Layout  This layout is a view group that displays child views in relative positions  Table Layout  A layout that arranges its children into rows and columns    More Information  FrameLayout  FrameLayout is designed to block out an area on the screen to display a single item  Generally  FrameLayout should be used to hold a single child view  because it can be difficult to organize child views in a way that s scalable to different screen sizes without the children overlapping each other  You can  however  add multiple children to a FrameLayout and control their position within the FrameLayout by assigning gravity to each child  using the android layout gravity attribute  Child views are drawn in a stack  with the most recently added child on top  The size of the FrameLayout is the size of its largest child  plus padding   visible or not  if the FrameLayout s parent permits    RelativeLayout  A RelativeLayout is a very powerful utility for designing a user interface because it can eliminate nested view groups and keep your layout hierarchy flat  which improves performance  If you find yourself using several nested LinearLayout groups  you may be able to replace them with a single RelativeLayout    Current docs here  TableLayout  A TableLayout consists of a number of TableRow objects  each defining a row  actually  you can have other children  which will be explained below   TableLayout containers do not display border lines for their rows  columns  or cells  Each row has zero or more cells  each cell can hold one View object  The table has as many columns as the row with the most cells  A table can leave cells empty  Cells can span columns  as they can in HTML  The width of a column is defined by the row with the widest cell in that column    Note  Absolute Layout is deprecated

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LinearLayout means you can align views one by one  vertically  horizontally    RelativeLayout means based on relation of views from its parents and other views   ConstraintLayout is similar to a RelativeLayout in that it uses relations to position and size widgets  but has additional flexibility and is easier to use in the Layout Editor   WebView to load html  static or dynamic pages    FrameLayout to load child one above another  like cards inside a frame  we can place one above another or anywhere inside the frame   deprecated -  AbsoluteLayout means you have to give exact position where the view should be   For more information  please check this address https   developer android com guide topics ui declaring-layout CommonLayouts

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LinearLayout   A layout that organizes its children into a single horizontal or vertical row  It creates a scrollbar if the length of the window exceeds the length of the screen It means you can align views one by one  vertically  horizontally    RelativeLayout   This enables you to specify the location of child objects relative to each other  child A to the left of child B  or to the parent  aligned to the top of the parent   It is based on relation of views from its parents and other views   WebView   to load html  static or dynamic pages   For more information refer this link http   developer android com guide topics ui layout-objects html

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Great explanation here  https   www cuelogic com blog using-framelayout-for-designing-xml-layouts-in-android     LinearLayout arranges elements side by side either horizontally or vertically       RelativeLayout helps you arrange your UI elements based on specific rules  You can specify rules like  align this to parent   s left edge  place this to the left right of this elements etc       AbsoluteLayout is for absolute positioning i e  you can specify exact co-ordinates where the view should go       FrameLayout allows placements of views along Z-axis  That means that you can stack your view elements one above the other

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