title: GridView with varying cell sizes, Launcher WP8 style
body: <p><strong>The problem</strong></p>
  
  <p>I want to get a special UI, which resembles the Windows 8 Tiles UI, having cells of different sizes on top of each other.</p>
  
  <p>Something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>AABB
  AACC
  AADD
  AADD
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>each letter represents a part of its cell, so cell A is 2x4 , cell B and cell C take 2x1 each , and cell D is 2x2.</p>
  
  <p>An good example would be <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lx.launcher8pro2&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">Laucher 8</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to use grid layout. </p>
  
  <p>I am using GridView and I am not being able to achieve above layout using GridView.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>1. I have a framelayout as the items in the adapter.
     Using Linear Layout instead of adapter supporting view will certainly 
     make it boring
     or
     May be I am wrong about Linear Layout.
  2. Can such a layout be achieved through GridView.
  3. How [Laucher 8][2]. is achieving that.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>My problem was solved using https://github.com/lucasr/twoway-view/ . Google's
  staggeredViewGridLayoutManager didn't help may be because I didn't found
  it's good usage documentation and I was not able to layout the items in the 
  Layout in my desired location.
  </code></pre>