Why are nested weights bad for performance? Alternatives?

Question

I have written a couple layout files where I used the layout_weight attribute to create a ratio between different views.

At some point, I start getting

Answer 1

Update: As we know the percent support library is deprecated from API level 26. ConstraintLayout is the new way to achieve the same flat xml structure.

Updated Github Project

Updated Samples:

Update: Great news android percent support library solves our problem of performance and nested messy weighted LinearLayout

compile 'com.android.support:percent:23.0.0'

Demo HERE

Consider this simple layout to demonstrate the same.

Avoided performance degrader nested LinearLayout with weights.Really awesome!!!.