Constraintlayout Views in Top Left Corner

ConstraintLayout views in top left corner

As stated in Constraint Layout guides:

If a view has no constraints when you run your layout on a device, it is drawn at position [0,0] (the top-left corner).

You must add at least one horizontal and one vertical constraint for the view.

I guess you haven't applied any constraints.

Either manually apply constraints to the view, or let the layout editor do it for you using "Infer constraints" button:

Constraint layout always alinging to top left corner

I suggest you learn more about constraints, you are not using it quiet right

app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="parent"

You see this line from your xml code, it will just put your view out of screen, instead it should be app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"

ConstraintLayout views at top left when added programatically

In order to constrain the newly added Views you should be cloning the ConstraintSet of the parent layout instead of the View that is being added. After defining constraints, this ConstraintSet should then be applied to the parent layout. Also make sure that new View is added to the layout before cloning the ConstraintSet.

In your case the added View is also a ConstraintLayout which is why you are not getting any errors when cloning the set.

These lines:

constraintSet.clone(levelItem);
constraintSet.applyTo(levelItem);

should be changed to:

constraintSet.clone(mapLayout);
constraintSet.applyTo(mapLayout);

All widgets in Constraint Layout getting stuck to upper left corner in Android Studio

TRY THE FOLLOWING CODE SNIPPET

<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">
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView9"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="60dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="60dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="49dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="60dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="60dp"
        android:text="Student Details"
        android:textColor="@color/colorPrimaryDark"
        android:textSize="40dp"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView10"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="37dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="37dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="57dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="27dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="27dp"
        android:text="Name"
        android:textSize="25dp" 
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/textView9" />

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

All items merges to top left in constraint Layout , Android Studio

Here's what you want to achieve using ConstraintLayout

<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/email_label"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="EMAIL"
        android:textSize="22sp"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" 
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.2" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/email_input"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:layout_margin="16dp"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/email_label" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/pwd_label"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="40dp"
        android:text="PWD"
        android:textSize="22sp"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/email_input" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/pwd_input"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:layout_margin="16dp"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/pwd_label" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="LOGIN"
        android:textSize="16sp"
        android:layout_margin="16dp"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/pwd_input" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

In the email label's widget, You can also remove the "layout_constraintVertical_bias" and "layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf" attributes and fix a top margin.

This can be done using Chains too.

Make sure you are using ConstraintLayout 1.0.2.

You can read this great tutorial about ConstraintLayout

Building interfaces with ConstraintLayout

Hope this helps!

How to position a view in Android constraint layout outside the screen at the beginning

Okay so to have a negative margin you can use translateX, translateY or TranslationZ.

in xml like so:

<Button
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Hello World!"
    android:translationX="-60dp"
    android:translationY="-90dp"
    android:translationZ="-420dp"
    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

or programmatically like so:

View view = ...;
view.setTranslationX(-60);
view.setTranslationY(-90);
view.setTranslationZ(-420);

Then in order to slowly bring it in from right to left you can use the animate() method like so:

View view = ...;
view.animate().setDuration(1000).translationX(-600).start();

Layout view is in top left corner in emulator

It seems that you've set your
RelativeLayout to a layout_width of 364dp and a layout_height of 494dp. It looks fine on your preview because you are using a Nexus 4 (look above your preview) as your preview but you are testing with a emulated Nexus 5. Due to the fact that you've coded the resolution to be 364dpx494dp (which is fine for a Nexus 4) your view will look different on different devices as they have difference screens. You should try changing your layout_height and layout_width to fill_parent

Android ConstraintLayout - Put one view on top of another view

Set an elevation on the ProgressBar; 2dp seems to work.

android:elevation="2dp"

You could also try setting translationZ as suggested in the accepted answer to a similar question.

I also came across this answer as an alternative.

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