Replacement for the linearLayout weights mechanism

Question

Background:

• Google suggests to avoid using nested weighted linearLayouts because of performance.
• using nested weighted linearLayout is awful to read, writ

Answer 1

After trying your code, I just find the reason of the problems you mentioned, and it is because in your customed layout, you only layout the child properly, however you forgot to measure your child properly, which will directly affect the drawing hierarchy, so simply add the below code, and it works for me.

    @Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    int widthSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec)-this.getPaddingRight()-this.getPaddingRight();
    int widthMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(widthMeasureSpec);

    int heightSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec)-this.getPaddingTop()-this.getPaddingBottom();
    int heightMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(heightMeasureSpec);

    if(heightMode == MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED || widthMode == MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED)
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("the layout must have a exact size");

    for (int i = 0; i < this.getChildCount(); ++i) {
        View child = this.getChildAt(i);
        LayoutParams lp = (LayoutParams)child.getLayoutParams();
        int width = lp._viewHorizontalWeight * widthSize/(lp._leftHorizontalWeight+lp._rightHorizontalWeight+lp._viewHorizontalWeight);
        int height =  lp._viewVerticalWeight * heightSize/(lp._topVerticalWeight+lp._bottomVerticalWeight+lp._viewVerticalWeight);
        child.measure(width | MeasureSpec.EXACTLY,  height | MeasureSpec.EXACTLY);
    }

    this.setMeasuredDimension(MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec), MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec));

}