When using Views DSL for

ConstraintLayout

, would you prefer to use

below(view)

instead of

topToBottomOf(view)

,

above

instead of

bottomToTopOf

,

before

instead of

endToStartOf

and

after

instead of

startToEndOf

? I'm considering adding these into the ConstraintLayout module as aliases to the existing ones.

before

and

after

aren’t as clearly horizontal as

below

and

above

are vertical

I can also skip the horizontal helpers and provide only

below

and

above

.

You can follow convention from Contour. For me startTo, endTo looks good (or leftTo/rightTo, but it is not good for RTL languages...)

I'm afraid

startTo

and

endTo

would be a little confusing among

startToStartOf

,

startToEndOf

,

endToStartOf

and

endToEndOf

. Note that

after

and

before

are already used as CSS selectors in W3C standards for WEB.

Sounds reasonable!

I'm adding this:

inline fun LP.before(view: View) = endToStartOf(view)
inline fun LP.above(view: View) = bottomToTopOf(view)
inline fun LP.after(view: View) = startToEndOf(view)
inline fun LP.below(view: View) = topToBottomOf(view)

I'm thinking of adding

bottomOf

,

startOf

, etc extension that would be aliases to

bottomToBottomOf

,

startToStartOf

, etc. Would you use it? Should I proceed? Or do you dislike the naming? What's now is enough?