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Arranging and aligning layout objects

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Arranging and aligning layout objects

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- [Instructor] Arranging and aligning all the different objects on your layout is really critical to not provide distraction to the users when they're interacting with your layouts. For example, this is the extreme use case, but you see that we've got fields and labels all over the place, and this can be very difficult for users to interact with. So there's some tools that we can find in layout mode, specifically over here in our inspector on the right-hand side. Of course, you can toggle the inspector if you don't see it. And I'm going to concentrate on the very far left tab, which is called position, and in the middle we see arrange and align. So the first thing that really jumps out at us here is we've got all these different fields that are not aligned properly. So the first thing I can show you is how to use guides. By default, you'll notice that by simply moving an object in layout mode, we see these blue guidelines…

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