Wrap_Content View Inside a Constraintlayout Stretches Outside the Screen

Wrap_content view inside a ConstraintLayout stretches outside the screen

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No, you cannot do what you want with ConstraintLayout as it is today (1.0 beta 4):

• wrap_content only asks the widget to measure itself, but won't limit its expansion against eventual constraints
• match_constraints (0dp) will limit the size of the widget against the constraints... but will match them even if wrap_content would have been smaller (your first example), which isn't what you want either.

So right now, you are out of luck for that particular case :-/

Now... we are thinking about adding extra capabilities to match_constraints to deal with this exact scenario (behaving as wrap_content unless the size ends being more than the constraints).

I cannot promise that this new feature will make it before the 1.0 release though.

Edit: we did add this capability in 1.0 with the attribute app:layout_constraintWidth_default="wrap" (with width set to 0dp). If set, the widget will have the same size as if using wrap_content, but will be limited by constraints (i.e. it won't expand beyond them)

Update
Now those tags are deprecated, instead use layout_width="WRAP_CONTENT" and layout_constrainedWidth="true".

How to make view wrap_content but not larger than with ConstraintLayout?

Title and version should be in the chain and app:layout_constraintWidth_default="wrap" used:

<?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:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    tools:background="#b3b2b2">

    <!-- information button -->
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.info"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/margin8"
        android:paddingLeft="@dimen/margin8"
        android:paddingRight="@dimen/margin8"
        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/margin8"
        android:scaleType="center"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_info_outline_white_24dp"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"/>

    <!--  -->
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.title"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:ellipsize="middle"
        android:textColor="@color/mySecondaryDarkColor"
        android:textSize="@dimen/fontSize18"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintWidth_default="wrap"
        tools:text="ExampleLibrary 01234567890123456789012345"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.versions"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
        android:paddingBottom="1dp"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="packed"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"/>

    <Spinner
        android:id="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.versions"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="@dimen/fontSize16"
        android:textColor="@color/mySecondaryDarkColor"
        tools:listitem="@layout/library_version"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@id/LibraryWithVersionItem.info"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.title"
        android:layout_marginRight="0dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.title"
        android:layout_marginBottom="0dp"/>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.sentence"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.title"
        tools:text="Some library description in one sentence\nbut two lines"
        android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/margin8"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.install"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
        android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/margin8"
        android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"/>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.isInstalled"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/LibraryManager.installed"
        android:textColor="#1a7c1a"
        android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin8"
        android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/margin8"
        android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/margin8"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.sentence"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.install"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
        android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/margin8"
        android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/margin8"/>

    <!-- install button -->
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.install"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="@dimen/margin8"
        android:paddingRight="@dimen/margin8"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/margin8"
        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/margin8"
        android:scaleType="center"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_get_app_white_24dp"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/LibraryWithVersionItem.info"/>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

I've tried to align version to title baseline but if the title is 2 or more lines it's aligned to the first line and it's not desired. So i had to align version to title bottom and hardcode title -3 bottom padding.

However, it looks as desired in Android Studio:

but on hardware device it looks different:

When analyzing in Layout Inspector i can see title width is calculated wrong:

Probably it's side effect of using it in RecyclerView but anyway...

ConstraintLayout inside of ViewPager wrap_content not working

Set all constraints to parent
then use 0dp in height or width instead of `wrap_content'

ConstraintLayout height with `wrap_content`

Oké, first of all you probably should not put an ConstraintLayout inside of an RelativeLayout.

Second, you can not "make wrap_content work" if your Constraintlayout has no defined size and its childeren also have no defined size

to make this work you can A: set Constraintlayout height and width to 100dp or match_parent, or B: set the height and width of the childeren of Constraintlayout to 100dp

100dp is an example

ConstraintLayout stick view to wrap_content view

Try placing the three views into a horizontal chain while shifting the horizontal bias of nameText to zero.

<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
    android:id="@+id/wrapper"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
    android:background="#99776633"
    tools:ignore="MissingDefaultResource">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/nameText"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:foreground="#66ff0000"
        android:lines="1"
        android:textSize="17dp"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/counter"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="packed"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintWidth_default="wrap"
        tools:text="Short text" />

    <View
        android:id="@+id/seperator"
        android:layout_width="1dp"
        android:layout_height="1dp"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/counter"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/counter"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:foreground="#9900fff0"
        android:lines="1"
        android:text="(47)"
        android:textSize="17dp"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/seperator"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/nameText"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintWidth_default="wrap" />

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

See the documentation on chains.

Android ConstraintLayout TextView go off the screen

Set android:layout_width="0dp" for street_name. That will cause it to match constraints and should keep it in bounds.

Not working? street_name is constrained on the right by guideline30 at 395dp. Is 395dp off the right of your screen?

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