android-constraintlayout

I have started to dive into the Constraints Layout that were announced on the IO this year. This looks very promising and makes your layouts very efficient. I have seen the codelab excersize provided by Google. However I have the following questions that I would like to resolve. How can ConstraintLayouts be used to design the layout for different screen sizes? Currently I design the layout and set the views' margins and paddings etc for a specific device/screen group. Save those values in the dimens.xml file. This is a REALLY painful method to design the layouts. Does the Android

I have a TextView to the right of an image. I am trying to place some long text next to the image but this text should automatically end by adding "..." at the end. However, this does not work. I use this layout: <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="wrap_content" android:layout_marginBottom="8dp" android:layout_marginLeft="8dp" android:layout_marginRight="8dp" android:layout_marginTop="8dp"> <ImageView android:id="@+id

Just I update my studio (version 2.3) and build version ('25.0.0') , now, when i try to create new activity then automatically constraintlayout dependency added in my build.gradle file. and layout render as parent ConstraintLayout , can anyone know how to remove this dependency when activity is created. Before activity creation gradle code. dependencies { compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.2.1' } After activity creation gradle code. dependencies { compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.2.1' compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.0' } You can modify default

Is there any way to place an images half is on top of another image using only constraint layout. I know it can be done using relative and frame layouts but in the case of constraint layout is there anyway? prefer ways which do not require any hardcoding of heights/widths the requirement will look like this you can set layout using only constraint layout like below : <?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

I have had a couple of my layouts blow up since changing over to ConstraintLayout version 1.1.0-beta4. Before I make any changes, I want to get a better understanding of how margins work in ConstraintLayout chains. In the following, I compare a layout in ConstraintLayout version 1.0.2 to version 1.1.0-beta4, but I believe that the issue first arose in 1.1.0-beta2. My goal is to have some text views stretch across the screen with gaps between the 1st and 2nd text views and the 2nd and 3rd text views. The background should show in these margins. To do this, I create a horizontal chain and

I'm trying to migrate from RelativeLayout to ConstraintLayout but I'm having problems adding the AdMob AdView to the bottom and the rest of the content above it. For example, using RelativeLayout was that simple. You only need to put android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" on the AdView and android:layout_above="@+id/adView" on the view which is containing the stuff. I'm trying to understand how to migrate this sample code and these two lines of code to the equivalent using a ConstraintLayout instead of a RelativeLayout. Please, can someone help me with this migration? <?xml version="1.0"