Using UI layout components
Often, we need to place a lot of objects in their correct and symmetric positions within our UI or in a nested element. Luckily, Unity has an auto-layout system that provides ways to nest UI elements into other UI elements. It is controlled by the UI layouts components that allow us to structure our UI. Learning how to master them is crucial for quickly creating clean UIs and achieving our design goals. In fact, this is the purpose of this recipe.
How to do it...
- As the first step, we need a panel to apply the layout controllers to, and we have to restructure its children objects. To create this panel, right-click on the Hierarchy panel and then go to UI | Panel. We should also rename it to First Panel.
- Then, we need to ...
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