ConstraintLayout - avoid overlapping

Question

There is a ConstraintLayout 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="match_parent">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button10"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:text="small text"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"/>

    <Button
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:id="@+id/button11"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="small text"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"/>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

It is displayed like this: Now is Ok, but if i change android:text="small text" to android:text="big teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeext" then views will overlap each other..

I'm need to make sure that with a small text there is a "wrap content", as I actually did on the screenshot above, but with a larger text, the text views must occupy a maximum of about 40 percent horizontally of the parent. Well also that the text was not transferred - I do android: ellipsize =" end " and android: singleLine =" true.

This is how it should be (edited in Photoshop for demonstration): How do this with ConstraintLayout or if can't - with others layouts?

Answer 1

you can also do it using Guideline and layout_constraintWidth_default property as in below example

<?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:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:showIn="@layout/activity_home">


    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button10"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        app:layout_constraintWidth_default="wrap"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:text="sdtessdsdsdsdsdsdsdsddsdsdxt"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        android:layout_marginLeft="0dp"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/guideline"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp" />

    <Button
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:id="@+id/button11"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        app:layout_constraintWidth_default="wrap"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="ddddddsdssdsdsdsdsdsdddt"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="-1dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="1"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@+id/guideline" />

    <android.support.constraint.Guideline
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/guideline"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.5" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Answer 2

The following attribute works:

app:layout_constrainedWidth="true"

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/constraint/ConstraintLayout

WRAP_CONTENT : enforcing constraints (Added in 1.1) If a dimension is set to WRAP_CONTENT, in versions before 1.1 they will be treated as a literal dimension -- meaning, constraints will not limit the resulting dimension. While in general this is enough (and faster), in some situations, you might want to use WRAP_CONTENT, yet keep enforcing constraints to limit the resulting dimension. In that case, you can add one of the corresponding attribute:

app:layout_constrainedWidth=”true|false” app:layout_constrainedHeight=”true|false”