Efficient Android Layouts

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Shows concrete choices and fixes: prefer a simple FrameLayout for overlays and toggle containers, implement a reusable avatar as a custom view that inflates subviews with the merge tag to avoid extra wrappers, replace many small label views with one custom onDraw view to fix huge rendering slowdowns, use drawable XML layering plus a v21 ripple and AppCompat for theme backporting, drive variants with resource qualifiers and booleans, and convert designer SVGs into Android vectors with Victor to eliminate repeated PNG work.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:13RelativeLayout / ConstraintLayout
3. 3:01LinearLayout
4. 5:38FrameLayout
5. 10:20Custom Drawing
6. 14:22Custom Drawables
7. 15:07Styles
8. 16:27Not Efficient
9. 18:17Themes
10. 20:14AppCompat
11. 26:19Resource Qualifier System
12. 28:53Resources as code
13. 35:04Drawable XML
14. 35:55Button Outline
15. 37:54Button Selector (v21)
16. 38:37Button Versions
17. 39:08Vector drawables
18. 40:27SVG - Vector Drawable
19. 43:07Tinting Images

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