How to center multiple Views together using ConstraintLayout?

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Google has announced a new layout called \"ConstraintLayout\" that\'s supposed to be the ultimate layout, that could replace all of the layouts while stayin

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EDIT: This answer had been written before chains became available. Please use chains now, see above answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40102296/1402641

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For now I believe your only choice would be to wrap the two text views in another layout - probably linear layout best fits this situation.

But the team behind constraint layout said they want to introduce "virtual containers", which serve exactly this use case: you group two or more views together and set a constraint (like centring vertically) on the container. The idea is that it is not a full nested layout inside of constraint layout, but just something that constraint layout uses to position it's children - hence it should provide better performance than nesting.

They mention it in their I/O talk (linked to the exact time). So I guess stay tuned.