I'm using ConstraintLayout to display a RecyclerView or a Image with TextView conditionally based on the data in the RecyclerView. The problem is that the Image and TextView won't center vertically even when I've properly put constraints on all 4 directions. I'm also using the packed chain style. Here's my layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
app:layout_constraintVertical_chainStyle="packed"
tools:context=".ShortlistFragment">
<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="#+id/shortlistedProfilesRV"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:visibility="gone" />
<me.zhanghai.android.materialprogressbar.MaterialProgressBar
android:id="#+id/interestProgress"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialProgressBar.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="160dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:visibility="invisible"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:mpb_progressStyle="horizontal" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/shortlistBgImageView"
android:layout_width="128dp"
android:layout_height="121dp"
android:contentDescription="Star image"
android:src="#drawable/star"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#id/shortlistHelperText"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_chainStyle="packed" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/shortlistHelperText"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Some Text Here!"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/shortlistBgImageView"
app:layout_constraintVertical_chainStyle="packed" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
In Android Studio Preview the image and text is totally centered as expected. But in an actual device its at the top (I'm texting Android 9). I need to give layout_marginTop to my ImageView to have it centered, but that is just a hacky way of doing things. What am I doing wrong here?
I was actually using this fragment inside a NavHostFragment which had its height set to wrap_content.
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I have a simple web view in between image and button. For some reason, if I put a long text, the web view is overlapping with the logo and the button. It works for a short text. I used constraint layout. It seems that the web view is expanding beyond the parent view.
Please see the pictures.
Below is my layout code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/iv_logo"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/card_big_margin"
android:src="#drawable/login_cashnetusa_color"
android:tint="#color/white"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
tools:ignore="ContentDescription" />
<androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
android:id="#+id/cv_splash_screen"
style="#style/CardTheme"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#id/btn_cta"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/iv_logo">
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_header"
style="#style/CardContent.CustomBlack.Bold"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="#dimen/card_normal_margin"
android:text="#string/dummy_full_name"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
<WebView
android:id="#+id/wv_update_text"
style="#style/CardContent.White"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="#dimen/card_normal_margin"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/tv_header" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
</androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn_cta"
style="#style/Button.OrangeGradient"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/card_normal_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/card_normal_margin"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/card_item_normal_margin"
android:textSize="16sp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#id/tv_skip"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
tools:text="#string/dummy_btn_ok" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_skip"
style="#style/CardContent.White"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/card_normal_margin"
android:text="#string/skip"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
The problem lies in here:
<androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
android:id="#+id/cv_splash_screen"
style="#style/CardTheme"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
<-- change layout:height from wrap_content to some specific height let it be 300-400dp -->
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#id/btn_cta"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/iv_logo">
or the second option is you can use minHeight and maxHeight in your cardview or it's child layout which is Constraint layout to prevent it from expanding on full screen
and if you have long texts to read use ScrollView inside cardview.
As you have set the height of your CardView to wrapContent it will expand to the content that is put in it, what you can do is set app:layout_constrainedHeight="true" that will prevent it from expanding beyond its bounds.
Note that you do have to set up the view bound chaining properly for this to work, ie set app:layout_constraintTop_toX and app:layout_constraintBottom_toX on all the views in the 'chain' from the top of the view through to the bottom.
so in your code:
<androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
android:id="#+id/cv_splash_screen"
style="#style/CardTheme"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/card_normal_outer_margin"
<!-- add this line --> app:layout_constrainedHeight="true"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#id/btn_cta"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/iv_logo">
I wonder how to implement the following design in Android xml. The contents will have height wrap-contents with the most priority, and it could even fill the whole screen if there are enough contents. The image above it should fill up the remaining height - however it also has a limited max-height of 160dp. It seems if I use layout-weight or match-parent, the max-height param does not work anymore. Is there a way to do this in the xml? Or do I have to do it in the Java file programmatically? Thanks.
try something like this:
I'm using two textView just for test
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#42A5F5">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#EC407A"
android:maxHeight="160dp"
android:text="Image"
android:textSize="48sp"
app:layout_constrainedHeight="true"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/textView"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="1.0" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#FFEE58"
android:text="Content"
android:textSize="48sp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="1.0" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
those are the important lines
android:maxHeight="160dp"
app:layout_constrainedHeight="true"
I have an imageview that I will place different images.
This images can have many sizes like 200x200 200x400 400x200...
Above imageview I have an adview and below this imageview I need 4 buttons.
The problem is, I'd like the image be below adview, but stop jumping position when ad loads. It goes down when an ad loads, I'd to stop this move, make the image fix, but above the adview.
My xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/ad_view"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="49dp"
android:orientation="horizontal"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/imageView1"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">
<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
ads:adSize="SMART_BANNER"
ads:adUnitId="ca-app-pub-xxx/xxx">
</com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>
</LinearLayout>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:layout_marginTop="89dp"
android:contentDescription="img"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/ad_view" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/a1"
android:layout_width="127dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:gravity="center"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.207"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.447" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/a2"
android:layout_width="127dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:gravity="center"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.806"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.447" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/a3"
android:layout_width="127dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:gravity="center"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.207"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.582" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/a4"
android:layout_width="127dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:gravity="center"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.806"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.582" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
TL;DR
The fastest solution would be to change your ad view android:layout_height="wrap_content" into android:layout_height="fixed size" so your ad view will have a single height and won't change because of its wrap_content attribute (If your ad view is not loaded you can think of wrap_content as height of 0 and only after its loaded it will have height, thus the layout jump).
Why is it bad?
your layout won't be responsive.
How to fix?
Read the answer below.
Long but better answer:
You can use guidelines with app:layout_constraintGuide_percent=".2" to tell your guideline to be at the top of your screen (80%) and constraint your ad view to your guideline - this way your layout will won't jump (it will have its space to load into).
Another thing, different phones got different screen size, in your layout you are using fixed size on your view (fixed size is 50dp for example) and the result is that what may look good on one screen (your android studio preview screen) will not look good on another screen (your actual phone).
Here is an example to achieve your wanted look using ConstaintLayout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<Button
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
app:layout_constraintHeight_percent="0.08"
android:text="add view"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/guideline"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher_background"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHeight_percent="0.4"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="#+id/guideline"
app:layout_constraintWidth_percent="0.6" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/a1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="a1"
app:layout_constraintHeight_percent="0.08"
app:layout_constraintWidth_percent="0.25"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/a3"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="#+id/a2"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="#+id/imageView1"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/imageView1" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/a2"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="a2"
app:layout_constraintHeight_percent="0.08"
app:layout_constraintWidth_percent="0.25"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="#+id/a1"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="#+id/imageView1"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="#+id/a1"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="#+id/a1"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.0" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/a3"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="a3"
app:layout_constraintHeight_percent="0.08"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="#+id/a1"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="#+id/a1"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/a1" />
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.Guideline
android:id="#+id/guideline"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
app:layout_constraintGuide_percent=".2" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/a4"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="a4"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="#+id/a3"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="#+id/a2"
app:layout_constraintHeight_percent="0.08"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="#+id/a2"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="#+id/a3" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
Here is how it will look (I am adding a screenshot from the layout editor for better understanding ConstaintLayout)
Some extra information:
ConstraintLayout is not meant to have nested view groups (in your case you have LinearLayout inside constraintlayout).
ConstraintLayout allows you to create large and complex layouts with a flat view hierarchy (no nested view groups). It's similar to RelativeLayout in that all views are laid out according to relationships between sibling views and the parent layout, but it's more flexible than RelativeLayout and easier to use with Android Studio's Layout Editor.
You can Use ConstraintLayout with guidelines and Chains to support different screen sizes, you won't have to use fixed sizes on your views and you will be able to use a single layout to support different screen size.
Give the adview or it's surrounding layout a minimum height equal to the smart banner content in your case likely 90px.
It's jumping because with no content loaded your wrap_content height = 0, then it gets a new height of x, so your imageview shifts down x.
Hello guys, I need to add 2 fixed width and height imageview in to center of screen using constraint layout how we can achieve something like this.
xml layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".ui.activity.profile.view.UserDetailsActivity">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_label"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="#string/you_are"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHeight_percent=".1"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintWidth_percent=".25" />
<CircularImageView
android:id="#+id/iv_farmer"
android:layout_width="#dimen/_100dp"
android:layout_height="#dimen/_100dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_profilewithimage"
app:civ_border="true"
app:civ_border_color="#e4e4e4"
app:civ_border_width="#dimen/_1dp"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="#+id/iv_prof"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/tv_label" />
<CircularImageView
android:id="#+id/iv_prof"
android:layout_width="#dimen/_100dp"
android:layout_height="#dimen/_100dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_profilewithimage"
app:civ_border="true"
app:civ_border_color="#e4e4e4"
app:civ_border_width="#dimen/_1dp"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="#+id/iv_farmer"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/tv_label" />
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
i am trying this but views are not centerd.
I have updated your xml code. Please try with this.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_label"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="You are"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/iv_farmer"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHeight_percent=".1"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintWidth_percent=".25" />
<CircularImageView
android:id="#+id/iv_farmer"
android:layout_width="#dimen/_100dp"
android:layout_height="#dimen/_100dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_profilewithimage"
app:civ_border="true"
app:civ_border_color="#e4e4e4"
app:civ_border_width="#dimen/_1dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="#+id/iv_prof"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
<CircularImageView
android:id="#+id/iv_prof"
android:layout_width="#dimen/_100dp"
android:layout_height="#dimen/_100dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_profilewithimage"
app:civ_border="true"
app:civ_border_color="#e4e4e4"
app:civ_border_width="#dimen/_1dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="#+id/iv_farmer"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
Hope it helps :)
In your first CircularImageView there's a problem with your right constraint:
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="#+id/iv_prof"
This should be constrained to the left of iv_prof:
app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="#id/iv_prof"
If you want the to be closer together in the center then change the style of the chain to packed by adding this attribute to the first CircularImageView:
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="packed"
To center the Views vertically in the parent you need to constraint the top and bottom of each View to the top and bottom of the parent respectively.
Also you're using left/right constraints for some Views and start/end for others. Try using just one set of them across the whole layout.
It worked for me using bias:
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/img_splash_logo"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:src="#drawable/weather_logo"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
I used constraintLayout and layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1"
(width is wrap_content, height is 0dp (match_constraint))
As a result, I expected width and height to be 1:1, but it's not working.
What is wrong?
I attached code and screenshot.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/t1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:background="#android:color/holo_blue_bright"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Hello World!11"
app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1" />
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
screenshot
I quote android developer site about Constraintlayout.
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/constraint/ConstraintLayout.html#DimensionConstraints
Ratio :: You can also define one dimension of a widget as a ratio of
the other one. In order to do that, you need to have at least one
constrained dimension be set to 0dp (i.e., MATCH_CONSTRAINT), and set
the attribute layout_constraintDimentionRatio to a given ratio. For
example:
<Button android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="0dp"
app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1" />
will set the height of the button to be the same as its width.
but it was not working.
You forget to add your constraints
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/t1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
android:background="#android:color/holo_blue_bright"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Hello World!11"
app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1" />
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
0dp is only applied to the child views of ConstraintLayout.
Any view should apply the attribute rules of its parent.
As off version 1.1.0 this has changed.
You can now define:
app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1"
app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="W,1:1"
app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="H,1:1"
Check the link below to find all the documentation regarding DimensionConstraints:
Link to the docs
In my case I have a problem like i have to fill my layout inside container with A4 size paper ratio.
Problem
I am getting A4 size resume pages as images from backend so i have to append those images in Viewpager in which i am using ImageView to display those images.
Solution
I went through Constraint layout document in which Ratio section is there. So i can use layout_constraintDimensionRatio for solving my problem.
So my xml that is used to Display the whole Layout is following, in my case i have used app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1.27" as with:height ratio but the actual ratio is app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1.41"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/orange">
<!-- divider line which i used as restricting my A4 size container height-->
<View
android:id="#+id/divider"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:background="#color/headline_title_color"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias=".85"/>
<!-- A4 size Image View-->
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/resumeContainer"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="12dp"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
android:layout_marginRight="12dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="16dp"
android:background="#color/green"
android:text="#string/change"
android:src="#drawable/banner"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#id/divider"
app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="1:1.27"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
/>
<!-- for Bottom two buttons -->
<com.bold.job.utils.CustomButton
android:id="#+id/preview"
style="#style/tertiaryButtonStyle"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="16dp"
android:onClick="preview"
android:text="#string/preview_resume"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="#id/guideline"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/divider"
/>
<android.support.constraint.Guideline
android:id="#+id/guideline"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.5" />
<com.bold.job.utils.CustomButton
android:id="#+id/preview2"
style="#style/tertiaryButtonStyle"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="16dp"
android:onClick="preview"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="#id/guideline"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
android:text="#string/preview_resume"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/divider"
/>
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
Please notice the last line, adding constraints around the edges makes the constraint work.
You can also use the design view in Studio, and drag and drop the constraints between objects.
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Available chats" />
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listChats"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/textView"/>