Hi, Is it possible to accomplish building a comple...

# compose-android

[rajalakshmi balakrishnan]

Hi, Is it possible to accomplish building a complex layout as shared below efficiently by composing only those items that are visible ?
• The outer list consists of inner lists ( horizontal and vertical)
• Last inner list (here Staggered Grid) can be infinitely scrolling
• Scrolling behavior appears as if the outer list is being scrolled.

[Stylianos Gakis]

Can you put everything in one grid, and have all the items that are not from that last bottom list be ones that take a wider grid span?

[agrosner]

We use a flattened grid that emulates this with different span sizes and paddings around the items. But staggered grid adds a challenge since we’ve been able to accomplish it all within a lazy vertical grid…
Curious if a custom layout here would work best

[agrosner]

The items are spliced into individual grid items to be super efficient.

[rajalakshmi balakrishnan]

Yeah, as @Stylianos Gakis suggested it can be accomplished if it was a grid layout. But we want to do a staggered grid in the last section of the list. @agrosner Any pointers on how we can accomplish this wit custom layout ? Do you mean skipping the idea of nested lists and go with a flattened layout ?

[Stylianos Gakis]

Might be able to go full custom lazy layout as well. Take some inspiration from here https://github.com/oleksandrbalan/minabox
And then how it is used in “LazyTable” or “ProgramGuide”.
I’ve never tried it myself but it may be what you want here

[Hemant Nimje]

It is recommended on documentation not to nest similar scrolling items in order to avoid future complications in your scrolling. So do not nest vertical scroll inside a vertical, and similar for horizontal nesting horizontal.
You can still have a vertical scroll as outer level and each list item to be horizontal scroll.

[agrosner]

Well it actually will crash the app today , so it’s pretty much impossible. But an official wrapper component that enables this dynamic recycling behavior would be so valuable

[rajalakshmi balakrishnan]

In iOS, with compositional layout, they can flatten the entire layout allowing all these combinations possible.

[agrosner]

Somebody build it! 🤠