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Hour 4. Mastering Layout

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

How to discover your window size and location

All about the main built-in Panels

How to handle content overflow

Layout is a critical component of an app’s usability on a wide range of devices, but without good platform support, getting it right can be difficult. Arranging the pieces of a user interface with static pixel-based coordinates and static pixel-based sizes can work in limited environments, ...

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