Android studio is a PATHETIC excuse of an IDE!! And managing a constraint layout inside a scroll view is worse than having my nails pulled out while a bamboo is growing into my spine at record time! Screw this piece of shit IDE!! I suck at front end bad enough to have to deal with its buggy frontend IDE!! Aaaah!!!! - pulls lumps of hair out-

ask an ios dev about his pain with xcode you'll look at android studio with a different view 🙂

@heyheni erm sir... I do xcode as well... I am familiar with the pains... But at least xcode is better when it comes to aligning and 'snapping ' things in the UI though.... Which at this moment is my predicament.... 😶

Android studio is a masterpiece if you are talking about it as an IDE. From debugging to designing it has all the handy tools built in. But for some reason its too much for an IDE 😂😂 ps: I still hate constraint layout, and I prefer using coordinator layout most of the time.

@htlr now that I am calm and had my tea, I agree with you, I was just livid that I had to sit for 20 minutes moving a single button because the damn thing refused to go below the other button, I eventually got it to adhere to my will, only to realise that the designs were missing a text box that I have to add in the middle of the design... And it is no simple feat, and I cannot blame the designer either, he has been nothing but helpful and sitting in the late hours with me... The constraint scroll view is just a Satan spawn.... But I do not detest constraint layout as a whole, its rather useful if used correctly... But the control you mentioned I never looked into, so I will be doing that today, thanks for your input (^^,)

Whoooo that constraint layout is a piece of shit. But. Its a 'constraint' for sure

@the-dawn report, reason: too early in the morning to be laughing. Haha I actually enjoyed your play on words more than I should... XD

@GhostDev 😆 good morning for you & to you

XCode is better when it comes to aligning :O :O :O :O

WHAT XCODE ARE YOU USING?

I've always had so much trouble if the storyboard is somewhat big, it is a pain to to change stuff in UI without having XCode crash or freeze

Now Android studio is not perfect either, but ever since v3.0 UI design is sooooo much better it used to be buggy as hell but now it is all great.

When I find my self in a case like yours, or having a complex UI that I don't need to mess around with, I just create a test.xml in layouts folder, do my updated/new UI, then cut -> paste into the original xml file, this will save me the trouble

@gitpush hard for me to say, the mac is not currently with me... I guess I have not really made as complex designs as you have in xcode...since I have never broken or frozen anything in xcode... The story boards are quite big and intricate, it has frozen at some points but I just patiently stare it down till it comes back to life... 😅

I am gonna have to double check and make sure my android studio is up to date... If that is not the case I will use your test.xml idea, thanks!

@GhostDev your welcome, at least you are not facing Xcode issues, cuz the design issue in Android studio is gone when using a test layout file.
But those crashes and freezing will not go unless the lazy devs fix it 🙄

@gitpush I often refactor code and designs before submitting a pull request, this keeps the code clean and issues at a minimum, and after about 25 pull requests I have noticed a big difference, its a bit tedious and grindy but not all that bad...

@GhostDev best thing you do honestly, IMO it is better to fix it on the spot rather than come back later, since you/team already know what this code does. Though with deadline usually rules in these situations

@gitpush ugh deadlines are where good code goes to die....

@GhostDev true story :\

I also have a very bad experience with Constraint Layout inside ScrollView. It's very hard to get the layout that I want for all the elements. I end up changed to Relative and Linear Layout.

I suggest for all developers, better use the record proven Relative and Linear Layout. Do not use Constraint Layout ever. Don't waste your time. You have been warned!

@jacobw Thanks for your feedback, if I ever grace Android dev with my presence I will be sure to look into your recommendation.