I hope to place positions in the parent view using percentages similar to what is possible with absolute positioning in CSS. In my scenario, I will have a variable and unpredictable number of views to be positioned this way.
Here is an example representing 3 TextViews inside a square with the following positions:
1: Top 55%, Left 29%
2: Top 77%, left 58%
3: Top 54%, Left 43%

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