Is it a bad practice to use negative margins in Android?

In 2010, @RomainGuy (core Android engineer) stated that negative margins had unspecified behavior. In 2011, @RomainGuy stated that you can use negative margins on LinearLayout and RelativeLayout. In 2016, @RomainGuy stated that they have never been officially supported and won’t be supported by ConstraintLayout. It is easy to work around this limitation though. Add a … Read more

Overlapping matches in Regex

Update 2016: To get nn, nn, nn, SDJMcHattie proposes in the comments (?=(nn)) (see regex101). (?=(nn)) Original answer (2008) A possible solution could be to use a positive look behind: (?<=n)n It would give you the end position of: nnnn   nnnn   nnnn As mentioned by Timothy Khouri, a positive lookahead is more intuitive … Read more

Why the content is not covered by the background of an overlapping element?

WARNING: Reading the following information can affect your mental health. The painting order for the descendants of an element generating a stacking context (see the z-index property) is: If the element is a root element: background color of element over the entire canvas. background image of element, over the entire canvas, anchored at the origin … Read more

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