Quick question, I want to have a layout where children views can place themselves wherever they want...

# compose

[frankelot]

Quick question, I want to have a layout where children views can place themselves wherever they want (x y relative to the parent layout)… not sure how to acomplish this in #Compose 🤔

Tried creating a custom layout and using:

placeable.placeRelative(x = 0, y = 0)

but I don’t have a way of asking the view where it wants to be placed

[frankelot]

I understand that in 99% of cases the layout should be the one in charge of placing its children views… but I want to create a set of draggable views that the user can move around freely

[Rafs]

You can use a Box as the parent composable and give it a modifier of fillMaxSize() After that you can place your children using Modifier.Offset(x, y)

[frankelot]

👀 that looks promising, thanks @Rafs! will give it a try

[bruno.aybar]

There's also BiasAlignment , which allows you to align content given a bias

modifier.align(BiasAlignment(horizontalBias, verticalBias))

the bias value goes from -1 (start / top) to 1 (end / bottom)