How Clay's UI Layout Algorithm Works

Nic Barker explains the inner workings of the flexbox-like layout algorithm used in the Clay C library.

Clay is a UI layout library written in C, and this video gives a high level explanation of how the flexbox-like layout algorithm in Clay works. The library can be found at github.com/nicbarker/clay If you're not familiar with Clay, a detailed introductory video can be found here: youtu.be/DYWTw19_8r4 If you would like to learn a bit more about how trees are implemented, see this video: youtu.be/KwBuV7YZido The paper on constraint solvers: arxiv.org/pdf/1401.1031 Facebook's "Yoga" layout library which was mentioned: github.com/facebook/yoga If you're interested, I also produce a paid programming fundamentals course at thesimplejoyofprogramming.com