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ConstraintLayout Flow helper example


You can achieve this by adding a androidx.constraintlayout.helper.widget.Flow virtual view inside the androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout and by referencing all your textviews with app:constraint_referenced_ids attribute.

Example below shows how I've achieved it.

<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"    android:orientation="vertical">    <TextView        android:id="@+id/text1"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="[AAAAAAAA]"        tools:ignore="MissingConstraints" />    <TextView        android:id="@+id/text2"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="[BBBBBBBB]"        tools:ignore="MissingConstraints" />    <TextView        android:id="@+id/text3"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="[CCCCCCCC]"        tools:ignore="MissingConstraints" />    <TextView        android:id="@+id/text4"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="[DDDDDDDD]"        tools:ignore="MissingConstraints" />    <TextView        android:id="@+id/text5"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="[EEEEEEEE]"        tools:ignore="MissingConstraints" />    <TextView        android:id="@+id/text6"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="[FFFFFFFF]"        tools:ignore="MissingConstraints" />    <androidx.constraintlayout.helper.widget.Flow        android:id="@+id/flow1"        android:layout_width="0dp"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:padding="10dp"        app:constraint_referenced_ids="text1,text2,text3,text4,text5,text6"        app:flow_horizontalBias="0"        app:flow_horizontalGap="10dp"        app:flow_horizontalStyle="packed"        app:flow_verticalBias="0"        app:flow_wrapMode="chain"        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" /></androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

Play around with app:flow_ attributes to change the arrangement of the textviews such as alignment, margin, etc. https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/constraintlayout/helper/widget/Flow

Final result should look like below depending on your screen size.

Result