ConstraintLayout cannot replace RelativeLayout or LinearLayout?

Question

I've learned about the ConstraintLayout which is much more flexible than RelativeLayout or LinearLayout. I am wondering if I can use it rather than RelativeLayout or LinearLayout. But I have a situation where I find ConstraintLayout can't do what I want, if it doesn't contain a nested viewgroup.

For instance, what if I want to do animation to a group of views (which could have been put into a LinearLayout) or I want to have a scrollview?

For the all things above, I still have to have a nested viewgroup.

How can I achieve this with ConstraintLayout?

Answer 1

You can nest other layouts inside ConstraintLayout. The whole point is you avoid multiple nesting using it, not all the nesting altogether.

Constraint Layout: This new layout is a flexible layout manager for your app that allows you to create dynamic user interfaces without nesting multiple layouts. It is distributed as a support library that is tightly coupled with Android Studio and backwards compatible to API Level 9.