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

I propose to use following optimizations:

or use http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/LinearLayout.html#attr_android:weightSum

or use TableLayout with layout_weight for rows and columns

or use GridLayout.