title: Xamarin Forms - AbsoluteLayout - How does works positions
body: <p>I'm working with Xamarin.Forms  with AbsoluteLayout, however, I'm not sure to understand how to works the positionning of elements.</p>
  
  <p>I'm working with Proportional Values so if I'm placing an element at <code>AbsoluteLayout.LayoutBounds="1, 0.05, 0.15, 0.1"</code> where each values is Proportional (so the flags are "all" <code>AbsoluteLayout.LayoutFlags="All"</code>)</p>
  
  <p>It will be placed at the top/right of the screen. It will not take a place a bit outside  however. So what does it means? Each element are repositionned into the screen if they go outside?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXWt2.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXWt2.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>But now, another question comes, when you place an element, on what is based the X/Y position? Does is the center or another point?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/35nJC.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/35nJC.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>On this example, I tried with 0.15 but the rendering was a bit weird, so I put 0 and then the rendering match with what I want.</p>
  
  <p>You could say "Test it and you'll see.", however, It's a waste of time for the designer and me, to position every elements, because we're not sure to understand how does it works. So we juste make try with debuging..</p>
  
  <p>We are also searching to know if a software exist to generate positions about the design made by the designer. We mean the position X/Y of the element in percent.</p>
  
  <p>Thank in advance !</p>