Hi, what composable or modifier can i use to contr...

# compose

[Justin Tullgren]

Hi, what composable or modifier can i use to control layout positioning? I am messing with the compose Greeting Tutorial and I added a TopAppBar and the composables are stacking on top of eachother instead of laying out sequentially. Thanks!

[Justin Tullgren]

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[Justin Tullgren]

This is what it looks like

[Filip Wiesner]

If you are just starting out I suggest doing the Compose codelabs first but the answer to your question is in your HelloContent composable: Column.
Column arranges items "sequentially" from top to down. For horizontal layouts there is Row

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

You'd probably want to use Scaffold with top app bar and main content

[Justin Tullgren]

@Filip Wiesner There is a column in the content. Putting the top app bar in the column means the app bar has the column padding which I don't want. I'll check out the codelabs thanks!

[Justin Tullgren]

I'll check out Scaffold @Kirill Grouchnikov thanks.

[Filip Wiesner]

In this exact scenario with TopAppBar it's better to use Scaffold because it's designed to do exactly this.
But to explain, the AppBar in your example is outside of the column so the content is drawn over it.
You could do something like this

Column
  AppBar
  Column
      OutlinedTextField

[Justin Tullgren]

oooo i see what you are saying

[Justin Tullgren]

gotcha

[Justin Tullgren]

thanks!

[Filip Wiesner]

I really suggest you to do this layout codelab first if you are unsure of how things work.

[Justin Tullgren]

yes i plan to. I was just getting started in reading from the initial tutorial.