CoordinatorLayout

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The CoordinatorLayout is a container somewhat similar to FrameLayout but with extra capabilities, it is called super-powered FrameLayout in the official documentation.

By attaching a CoordinatorLayout.Behavior to a direct child of CoordinatorLayout, you’ll be able to intercept touch events, window insets, measurement, layout, and nested scrolling.

In order to use it, you will first have to add a dependency for the support library in your gradle file:

compile 'com.android.support:design:25.3.1'

The number of the latest version of the library may be found here

One practical use case of the CoordinatorLayout is creating a view with a FloatingActionButton. In this specific case, we will create a RecyclerView with a SwipeRefreshLayout and a FloatingActionButton on top of that. Here’s how you can do that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/coord_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout
        android:id="@+id/swipe_refresh_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/recycler_view"/>

    </android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout>

    <android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
        android:id="@+id/fab"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="16dp"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:color="@color/colorAccent"
        android:src="@mipmap/ic_add_white"
        android:layout_gravity="end|bottom"
        app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"/>

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

Notice how the FloatingActionButton is anchored to the CoordinatorLayout with app:layout_anchor=”@id/coord_layout”

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