In most applications, you'll find that a combination of the ConstraintLayout, CoordinatorLayout, and some of the more primitive layout classes (such as LinearLayout and FrameLayout)) are more than enough to achieve any layout requirements you can dream up for your user interface. Every now and again though, you'll find yourself needing a custom layout manager to achieve an effect required for the application.

Layout classes extend from the ViewGroup class, and their job is to tell their child widgets where to position themselves, and how large they should be. They do this in two phases: the measurement phase and the layout phase.

All View implementations are expected to provide measurements for their actual size according to specifications. These measurements are then used by the View widget's parent ViewGroup to allocate the amount...