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Make middle View not push other view outside of bounds

I have multiple TextViews inside a horizontal LinearLayout and i need the middle text view to have ellipse=middle so that when the middle text is long enough, it pushes on both sides but the other views don't go out of bounds, but instead the middle TextView shows the '..."
Here's how it should look.
Setting the items normally, wrap_content for all in a horizontal LinearLayout will make the at ASAP text be pushed outside of the screen on Android (the above screens are from the iOS app).
Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Perhaps with a ConstraintLayout somehow ?!

Yes, i would recommend a ConstraintLayout. Top item to the top of the view, bottom item to thr bottom of the view then the middle item attached to these two views. You could also use barriers.

Coordinator Layout - unwanted animation on layout shrink

In my application i have CoordinatorLayout with nested custom view, which has custom MoveUpwardBehavior. When Snackbar appears, I want this view to be pushed over it and it works.
The problem is, that CoordinatorLayout is nested in RelativeLayout which has flag animateLayoutChanges=true. When RelativeLayout animates its views, CoordinatorLayout shrinks a bit (vertically). It causes, that mentioned custom view also moves, but i want to make it stick to its position. Any thoughts, how I can accomplish it?

You need to set CoordinatorLayout to be top-level layout instead of wrapping it inside another parent. The animation and displacement of the views during layout animation is totally normal. You may want to tweak your MoveUpwardBehavior to get the target view to keep the intended behavior, in case that your custom view is not direct descendant of CoordinatorLayout.

how to move all the Layouts up when scrolling more in the list view in android

i have a fragment which has a stationary Image View at the top , some linear layouts to display the texts and List View at the Bottom. i want the entire screen to go up(that stationary Image View and middle part) when i scroll down in the List View.
I tried to place all layouts in a single Linear Layout and put it inside Scroll View since it has only one direct child..but that makes only the List view scroll able.

Try using CoordinatorLayout and scrolling behaviour from the design library.You can find a great tutorial here

Method to allow a single child view to overflow the viewgroup bounds?

The following screenshot illustrates a simple example of what I have now:
What I'd like to achieve, is that the selected (blue) view not be clipped at the boundary of the red container. My first try was clipChildren="false", which causes the blue view to expand outside of its borders, filling the the red area. I just want to see the portion overlaying the green area.

I think you'll have to float the blue on top of both the red and green. You can't have a child outside of its parent ViewGroup (AFAIK). You'll need to redesign your layout.
Getting what you want should be pretty easy, though. I don't use the graphical designer, so would need XML.
FrameLayout with LinearLayout inside to show the Red/Green, then another Linear or Relative after the first LinearyLayout (inside the FrameLayout). With LinearLayout, I'd align right, and give the blue element some padding.
It may be possible to do this all with RelativeLayout, but I tend to stay away from it.

Essentially what you're looking for is overlapping views. This can be done with a FrameLayout. For information on how to do this, please checkout this example.

How to restrict bounds for Translate Animation for a view in Android?

Let me explain the scenario that I want to achieve:-
Consider the below as the Layout I have inside a Parent_Linearlayout:
[Linear Layout] (Fill_Parent, Wrap_Content)
[ScrollView]
Activity's setContentView is set to the Parent_Linearlayout
In the application, when a condition is met, I want the Scrollview to be removed from the screen and instead put another View in its place.
I've been able to do this, & when I remove the ScrollView, I'm applying translate Animation to it so that it seems as if the View has gone to the top -before removing it.
But when the animation occurs, the ScrollView translates OVER the Linear layout present above it.
How do I restrict it, so that the scrollview does not go over the linear layout, but disappears at the base of the Linearlayout. I want the linearlayout to always stay visible..
I've been trying to do this from quite some time, but I've not been able to get desired results..
Could someone kindly help me out here??

I don't quite understand your description of your layout, but the Android view system is drawn based on the ordering of the views in the hierarchy. Views added later to a parent are drawn after those added earlier. So if you always want the LinearLayout to be drawn on top of the ScrollView if/when they overlap, then declare or add the ScrollView object to its parent before the LinearLayout object.
In thinking more about this, I suppose the ordering here is important because you want the ScrollView to be placed below the LinearLayout in the parent of both of these views. Putting the ScrollView first (and thus having it painted first) would then put it above the other LinearLayout, which isn't what you want.
There are various ways to achieve what you want. For example, you could use a RelativeLayout as the parent of the views, then the ordering is not important.
Alternatively, you could place the ScrollView inside another LinearLayout (and that LinearLayout would be the second child of the overall parent layout). Then when you animate the ScrollView, it would be clipped by its immediate parent, which I believe would give you the effect you're looking for (make sure that setClipChildren() is set to true on this new intermediate LinearLayout, which it is by default, otherwise it won't clip the ScrollView as it animates out of it). Note that this approach would necessitate different animation values, since you are now animating the view outside of its parent (the new LinearLayout).